Inclement weather prompted the cancellation of last week’s planned community clean-up.
The Fort Macleod Environment Committee rescheduled the clean-up to Wednesday, April 26.
Weather permitting, of course.
The annual event will see volunteers patrol various areas in Fort Macleod to pick up garbage that has accumulated over the winter.
The community clean-up is organized by the Fort Macleod Environment Committee and is intended to celebrate Earth Day.
The clean-up gets under way at 4:30 p.m. behind the G.R. Davis Administration Building on 20th Street.
Volunteers will be provided with garbage bags and assigned an area of town to clean.
Following the clean-up, volunteers will be treated to a barbecue back at G.R. Davis.
Last year, about 71 people turned out for the clean-up organized by the Fort Macleod Environment Committee.
The volunteers aged 10 to 70-plus years combed the banks of the Oldman River, parks, green spaces, ditches and other areas collecting garbage.
The result was 74 large garbage bags filled with trash and turned in for disposal by the Town of Fort Macleod public works crew.
F.P. Walshe school students will also take part in the community clean-up on Wednesday afternoon.
Students will be out in force to collect garbage on the school grounds and along the railway tracks that run south of F.P. Walshe school.
The students will be treated to a barbecue following their clean-up.
