Springfield resident Bob Powell sent along pictures (left, and below) from his vantage point last Saturday at the Duggan Middle School parking lot, where scrap metal, tire and mattress dumpsters were located for collection of junk across the city that day. View them all here.
The tire dumpster. Photo by Bob Powell
Part-time downtown resident Thom Schoepfer (pictured below) recently spent time in New Orleans doing relief and rebuilding volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, and sent along photos he took there to share with readers.
He writes that his Realtor group built eight homes in Musicians’ Village, which, according to Habitat, was conceived by Harry Connick and Branford Marsalis, and "will consist of 70 single-family, Habitat-constructed homes for displaced New Orleans musicians and other qualifying Habitat partner families. Its centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, dedicated to the education and development of homeowners and others who will live nearby." Click on the images above for more of Schoepfer’s photos.
Back here at home, Keep Springfield Beautiful has been working on tallying the numbers from last Saturday’s citywide effort to see how we fared. Bill Dusty published some preliminary statistics earlier this week that excluded the weight of tires collected. According to his numbers, a total of about 163 tons of trash was removed in one day, just shy of the 170-ton goal. This number included about three tons of televisions and computer monitors and 4.5 tons of scrap metal. Dusty also reported 108 tons of bulk waste hauled by Waste Management dumpsters, and 47 tons of miscellaneous trash picked up by the city’s DPW crews.
Update: Linda Langevin of Keep Springfield Beautiful notifies me that more numbers have arrived. She says 4.5 tons of tires were collected by Joseph Freedman Co., Inc. to add to the nearly 163 tons reported earlier. Along with another three tons of litter collected by the Parks Department on Saturday, she says that brings the total to just over 170 tons of trash and debris removed from streets and vacant lots in the city on one day. Goal reached!
