With the pandemic winding down, the SCWN again needed to cancel the ‘big’ yearly cleanup, and replaced that with an offer to all of our contacts of support for smaller groups. 3 have stepped up to participate in their own cleanups this year. The first was the Leadershop of La Grange in March (see previous post below).

The next cleanup happened on April 25 with 40 residents of Harding Woods, along the south side of the Salt Creek along Brainard and Harding Avenues, and up to the south side of the Salt Creek on the opposite side of the bike path on April 25.

Thanks to Michael and Janna McCartney for hosting, caffeinating and feeding the cleanup crew! It was a beautiful morning and a fun time.

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Most recently on May 11, Cub Scouts from Pack 14, members of the all-girls den led by Jennifer Robison did a great job cleaning up the Brezina Woods area just off La Grange Road near Cermak. Besides the work, everyone had a great time time hiking to a secret beach full of fresh water muscle shells and learning some interesting facts about the history of the Salt Creek, the impact of human development, flooding and global warming.

Many thanks to all groups and participants for clearing out the plastics and the trash and making the local environment, and everything downstream from it, cleaner. Well done!