Apr 15, 2013 2 min read

A cleanup day in Washington is scheduled for April 20.

Councilman Kenneth Westcott said the event will be taking place between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. that Saturday. People interested in helping to remove litter can meet at three locations where vests, gloves and trash bags will be distributed.

The locations are the Tylerdale fire station, the West End playground at the corner of Baird Avenue and Broad Street, and St. Paul AME Church on Ridge Avenue.

Those locations also are where Dumpsters will be located.

Westcott said those associated with the neighborhood crime watches have agreed to participate, but people who want to concentrate on cleaning up their own neighborhoods can stop at City Hall prior to April 20 to get the vests, gloves and bags.

If people are unable to place their filled litter bags in the Dumpsters, Westcott said they can be placed at the curb and he will arrange to have volunteers pick them up.

With the change in the state’s recycling law, Westcott noted that used electronics can no longer be placed curbside unless prior arrangements have been made with Waste Management.

However, he noted that the Washington City Mission will take electronics for recycling.

With the coming of spring weather, the city’s new Blight Task Force also will be out looking for code violations, with particular attention to out-of-control foliage and high grass that needs to be mowed.

The task force is made up of City Council, Mayor Brenda Davis, Code Enforement Officer Ron McIntyre, firefighters and police patrolmen.

Davis said 12 people with the Restrictive Intermediate Punishment group at the Care Center, where she is employed, spent Monday picking up litter on Wylie Avenue. She plans to have another RIP group perform the same community service at the Jefferson Avenue ramps next week.