Neither rain nor snow nor sleet
Bet you thought we were going to write about the US Postal Service. - Nope - this is all about Earth Day 2006. Well it didn't snow or sleet, but with temps in the forties and a drizzly rain it felt cold enough for snow and sleet.
We arrived at Henry Park in our hometown of Vernon for the Fox Hill Tower Geocaching CITO Event. hosted by Daddy's girl and Heckle We were eager to help clean up this area for sentimental reasons as it was the site of our first cache findback in 2003. It was hidden by our good friend Wide Glide. The Vernon Parks and Rec Department was having a townwide trail clean-up so they had coffee, muffins and bagels ready for the clean-up crews. They also handed out Earth Day shirts to all the participants.
Onward with bags, grabbers and clippers. Our area was all around the Tower itself and word had it from the parks crew that this area was the 'cleanest' of all the park spots they hoped to spruce up today. We believe they were WRONG.
Bikes, car hoods, TV's, batteries (checked them all and none were creative cache containers), street signs, industrial wire and conduit, numerous tires, paint cans, and flower pots to name a few of the bigger items.
And booze bottles, drink bottles and plastic cups galore. When the park guys came back with one truck to load our trash they were amazed. One dump truck didn't do it and they had to come back with a second.
After the clean-up came the usual swapping of travel bugs and geocaching stories. Feathers another good friend and number two in logging travel bugs, was there so it took a while for all the trades of coins, jeeps and bugs while we waited for lunch donated by two local Pizza Parlors.
Daddy's girl and Heckle did a fantastic job working with the Parks and Rec Department to set the event up and also in solicitating food and prizes from various vendors for the crew.
This was a very rewarding day. One to see how much trash we cleaned up, but more to know that we were able to give back something to great Mother Earth for giving us such a great playground!
Thanx!!!
Mike and Barb
We arrived at Henry Park in our hometown of Vernon for the Fox Hill Tower Geocaching CITO Event. hosted by Daddy's girl and Heckle We were eager to help clean up this area for sentimental reasons as it was the site of our first cache findback in 2003. It was hidden by our good friend Wide Glide. The Vernon Parks and Rec Department was having a townwide trail clean-up so they had coffee, muffins and bagels ready for the clean-up crews. They also handed out Earth Day shirts to all the participants.
Onward with bags, grabbers and clippers. Our area was all around the Tower itself and word had it from the parks crew that this area was the 'cleanest' of all the park spots they hoped to spruce up today. We believe they were WRONG. 
Bikes, car hoods, TV's, batteries (checked them all and none were creative cache containers), street signs, industrial wire and conduit, numerous tires, paint cans, and flower pots to name a few of the bigger items.
And booze bottles, drink bottles and plastic cups galore. When the park guys came back with one truck to load our trash they were amazed. One dump truck didn't do it and they had to come back with a second.
After the clean-up came the usual swapping of travel bugs and geocaching stories. Feathers another good friend and number two in logging travel bugs, was there so it took a while for all the trades of coins, jeeps and bugs while we waited for lunch donated by two local Pizza Parlors.Daddy's girl and Heckle did a fantastic job working with the Parks and Rec Department to set the event up and also in solicitating food and prizes from various vendors for the crew.
This was a very rewarding day. One to see how much trash we cleaned up, but more to know that we were able to give back something to great Mother Earth for giving us such a great playground!Thanx!!!
Mike and Barb
2 Comments:
It was our first CITO event. My boyfriend is 'the geocacher' and we're very new to this. I wasn't sure what help he could offer since he's a quadriplegic, but they put him to work! And he loved it!!
Great work guys. We got in on our first CITO this weekend and had a great time. Even had a few motorists stop on the side of the road to thank us. Happy Earth Day.
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