Kennedy High School Coach
Corey Farmer, staff, some parents and his varsity baseball team helped cleanup
and paint a small city playground north of Kinyon Elementary School on
Saturday, September 6.
The
team coordinated the cleanup with the city's parks maintenance crew, which
trims a lot of the trees in the park while the boys mulched the playground,
took away the branches and then repainted the swing sets in Kennedy blue and
red.
It
was a great job by the high school students. Farmer said he got the idea from
other recent cleanups in the city. The most recent of which was led by resident
Karen DePriest, who gathered a group to weed, clean and replant the flower beds
around the flag poles at Telegraph and Goddard Roads.
Before
that, groups gathered along Monroe Street and I-94 to clean and paint over the
graffiti on the underpass and cleaned and painted over the graffiti on the
eastbound exit at Ecorse off of Telegraph, just north of Walmart.
The
Taylor Fire Department cleaned out Coan Lake in Heritage Park, and a large
group from Evangel Baptist Church cleaned and mulched the City Hall Complex
from the Midtown Fire Department all the way down to the Municipal Building.
The
idea for community cleanups started early this year with resident Jim Taylor,
who led a huge volunteer cleanup of Heritage Park. That event gathered more
than 280 residents.
More
volunteer cleanups are in the works this fall. If you have an idea or would
just like to participate, contact Karl Ziomek
at
kziomek@ci.taylor.mi.us or by telephone at (734) 374-1447.
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