On Sunday, November 18th, Bike For Democracy led a clean-up of trash at Oberlin's arboretum with about 20 community and college volunteers, including City Councilmen David Ashenhurst and David Sonner. We gathered at the water tower and broke off into teams, to root out the glass shards and styrofoam nightcrawler containers buried beneath the leaves around our reservoir.
An hour and a bit later, we returned with three huge recycling bags full of bottles and cans, as well as four 50-gallon bags of rubbish, and assorted scrap metal and junk wood.
At the firepit, we dug carefully for broken glass, but were not able to remove all of it, and so we are making recommendations to the College Grounds Crew for a more thorough clean-up and replacement of the soil cover there. We are also volunteering to create Leave-No-Trace literature to post at the Arb', so that in the future people won't litter so much!
Our good friends played some old-timey music for us as we sorted the trash, and then we danced! Our efforts showed that this is joyous work, indeed,-- let's keep it up!
