While Earth Day may be every day, we only participate a few times a year. This time, in conjunction with Groundspeak’s International Cache in Trash Out Day and Dakota County Parks, we cleaned up Thompson County Park in West St. Paul.
A chilly start to the day opened up into one gorgeous April morning for cleaning up trash. Dakota County Parks in general are very clean because they are under utilized. We had contacted Dakota County to see if they had any suggestions for us. Thompson County Park, because of its location and easy access from a major highway, is their most littered in park.
We had a 10AM start time and most people were showing up a little after 9:30. Dakota County had kindly supplied us with trash bags, gloves, snacks, and water as well as offered to pick up any of the trash bags after we were done.
With about 25 people in attendance, one of our best turn outs yet, we spent about two hours cleaning up the park and it was spotless! A big thanks goes out to sui generis for working with Dakota County Parks over the past few months to get this set up! Another thanks goes out to all those Minnesota geocachers in attendance. We could not have pulled this off w/o you!
See photos from the 2004 MnGCA CITO Day here and pictures from Arcticabn and I doing some CITO in Savage here.
See all the pictures from today here (mobile) and here (camera).
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April 23rd, 2006 at 10:22 am
Wow - another park cleaned up. Glad to see so many geocachers contributed to Earth Day.
Mike and Barb
April 25th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
I know it’s off topic from the park cleanup, but I thought I’d post it here under geocaching anyway.
Just wondering if you’d seen the article, or perhaps it mentioned someone you know?
http://www.startribune.com/332/story/387916.html
April 25th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
plover, good to see you on here again!
Funny as it is, I *just* read this via a post on the MnGCA Forum here.
We had been notified of the “Apple Valley Amazing Race” in a Forum post here. Because I was tied w/the CITO day in West St. Paul I didn’t bother looking into it any further but based on the fact that we have won the MOGA team event three years in a row, I figure we’d have a good chance at that one too ;)