By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY
Senior Writer
Seventeen community-minded volunteers showed up at Lake Gregory’s North Shore parking lot bright and early on Saturday, May 3 to participate in the fourth annual Crestline Community Cleanup Day, co-sponsored by the Lake Gregory Yacht Club and Lake Gregory Recreation Company.
This happy volunteer found trash and other debris adjacent to a lake drive sidewalk.
The goal of the community-wide cleanup, which got underway at 10 a.m., was to clean up the beaches and trails around Lake Gregory, Lake Drive, Lake Gregory Drive and Top Town Crestline. Those who arrived by 10 a.m. were treated to hot coffee and donuts, prior to outfitting themselves with bright yellow vests, while organizer Rick Dinon demonstrated the various trash grabber tools.
Volunteers then spread out in different directions around the lake, while others headed into the Lake Drive business district and began picking up trash and debris lining the curbs, sidewalks and several vacant lots.
Former Yacht Club Commodore Doug Howardell, who was encountered halfway down Lake Drive, toward the Shell gas station, was asked what inspired him to participate in the four-hour-long event. “As a proud member of this community, I want it to look its best,” he said as he grabbed a plastic cup and quickly stashed it in a large, black trash bag.
Across the street from Howardell, Laura McBride, a proud member of the Cedarpines Park Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, was doing much the same.
Meanwhile, over on the South Shore of Lake Gregory, Crestline resident Susan Oh was seen near the dog park picking up cigarette buts, bottle caps, paper beverage cups and fast-food wrappers. When asked what the most unusual thing she found was, she said it was a plastic dental floss pick.
As the 2 p.m. event end time approached, Dawn Selleck was encountered sweeping up cigarette butts, plastic straws, bottle caps and other debris lining the edge of a sidewalk along Crest Forest Drive in Top Town, Crestline. “This is the worst place I’ve been today; they need more trash cans up here.” Art Dixon, who was sweeping up debris nearby, said he agreed.
Art Dixon and Dawn Selleck clean up curbside debris in Top Town Crestline.
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