Every spring for the last 103 years, the Prince George community has done its part in contributing to a cleaner city.
This comes in the form of slapping on gloves, picking up garbage and recycling bags and getting down in the ditches to remove waste in local neighbourhoods for the benefit of the environment.
On April 25, the tradition will continue once more as the date for the city’s annual civic spring clean-up. The 2020 event was cancelled by COVID-19 due to public health and safety protocols.
“The melting of a season’s worth of snow and ice (while eagerly welcomed each spring) can reveal a season’s worth of refuse and debris, which is why the Spring Clean Up has become an annual local event,” the City of Prince George says in a statement.
According to its records, the first spring clean-up in Prince George took place on April 25, 1918, three years after the city was incorporated.
Since then, it’s been a collaboration with residents and the Recycling and Environmental Action Planning Society (REAPS), in which thousands upon thousands of pounds of waste, debris and recyclable material have been collected.
The event itself is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 25.
Free bags and gloves are set to be handed out for those that register with REAPS for the clean-up, which opens April 10 at 10 a.m.
Community members, groups and organizations are encouraged to participate in other ways as well, the city explains, and to socially distance from other volunteers.
This also includes throwing away household hazardous waste, electronics and yard and garden materials to the proper locations.
You can visit the city’s spring clean-up page for more information.
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