0912 Shades Creek Cleanup
Volunteers help clean out Shades Creek during last year’s event. Photo courtesy of Michelle Blackwood.
The Friends of Shades Creek will hold their annual creek cleanup on Saturday, September 29 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
“This is a good opportunity for scout groups and other civic groups to help clean up Shades Creek, which is a valuable resource in our own community,” said Michelle Blackwood, president of the Friends of Shades Creek.
Those interested in helping should bring gloves and old clothes and meet at Samford’s West Gate, just across Lakeshore Drive from the bridge that goes to Homewood High School. There will be a tent set up for the event just to the right of the entrance gate.
Groups will also divide up along Shades Creek to clean up different sections. Some will get in Shades Creek and will need to wear water shoes. Others will pick up trash along the banks and in the stream. Some groups will focus on the areas of the creek at Broadway and Greensprings and on Shades Creek behind the BP station.
For more information on the event, call 541-7244.
