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Kirkland Downtown Association says THANK YOU to over 80 volunteers who gave downtown a “Clean Sweep”

By on May 24, 2010 in Archived, Featured Slideshow, Headlines


With gloves and brooms in hand, over 80 volunteers from across the city came out on Saturday morning to join efforts in downtown Kirkland’s annual Clean Sweep. The organized a crew of volunteers fanned out and got to work after meeting on Park Lane. Volunteers cleaned the sidewalks, sweeped the streets and basically picked up, tidied up and spruced up everything downtown.

The KDA would like to send a BIG THANK YOU to all the folks that participated in Clean Sweep on Sat morning.  We had over 80 people work for 2 1/2 hours cleaning up the downtown core.  This was the biggest turn out ever for this event.

Additional thanks go to several downtown merchants including:
Starbucks and McLeod Insurance for providing the coffee and doughnuts;
George’s Place for providing a great lunch; and
Ben and Jerry’s for awesome ice cream to wrap it up.

The Heathman Hotel provided three raffle prizes which were won by presented to three volunteers.

The gratitude of many goes to those who so generously gave of their time and efforts to help support downtown in preparation for the summer season.
Below is a photo showing the volume of yard waste collected during Clean Sweep.

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  • Jim Hitter

    Carolyn and I have been participating in Kirkland Clean-up Days for years now. We're always amazed that property owners and business operators (with notable exceptions) seem to take so little pride in the appearance of their properties. Imagine how much better downtown Kirkland would look if the first order of business was to sweep up the butts and trash on a daily basis. A few minutes of weed pulling once a week would make Clean Sweep unnecessary. It seems that the majority of folks willing to grub out the weeds and trash on this day are residents and neighbors, rather than people involved in downtown businesses (do they have no pride!!). Again, it should be noted that there are some downtown business people who do participate fully. (We spent some hours with Les Utley of the Heathman and Bill Vadino of the Chamber of Commerce who did the heavy lifting of grates around trees.)