Community Cleanup this Wednesday
June 9, 2025, 11:20 am
Ryan Kiedrowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Moosomin’s Community Cleanup is set for this Wednesday, June 11, with expanded hours this year to allow more volunteers to come out when they can.
“We’re going to have headquarters set up at the Sportsplex on the deck, so we’ll have somebody there the whole day from 9 am until 7 pm,” said Angela Thorn from the Moosomin Parks and Recreation Department. She explained that the longer hours allow for more people to be involved.
“Anybody can come and give us an hour or two of your time,” Thorn said. “You don’t have to come from 9 am until 7 pm. This way it gives people an opportunity to come when they’re free. It also gives businesses a chance if they wanted to put people out there to help—like two people at a time throughout the day with their Royal Bank shirts or their Celebration Ford shirts or whatever—to show they help in the community, too. So it gives options both ways for that, whether you’re off work and can come out, or if employers can afford to let a couple of people go out and help clean up.”
Once volunteers have registered at the Sportsplex, they’ll find out which areas of town need to be cleaned.
“We’re going to have a map to show what areas have already been either done or spoken for,” Thorn said. “The schools have certain areas that they’re going to look after, so we’d like people to check in with us. They can get a coffee if they bring their own coffee mug. Tim’s will have coffee there. We’ll have water—they should bring a water bottle—and then we will have garbage bags and gloves available for people to take to go to their areas.”
One new feature of the cleanup this year will be the collection of tree branches by town staff as a way for residents to clear out their yards.
“Between 8 am and 3 pm, they’ll drive around and pick up just tree trimmings,” Thorn said. “They’re not going to come around and pick up garbage, or big, giant trees, but just tree trimmings.”
The Town will also provide garbage bags for volunteers, and there are still some gloves available.
“We do still have some gloves from last year, Nutrien had given us a whole bunch of gloves last year, in case people want them,” Thorn said, adding that people are more than welcome to bring their own gloves or sticks to help reach some of the litter easier.
“Maybe some people have mobility issues and they can’t bend over,” Thorn said. “If they want to bring that or any other supplies. We do have a case of gloves, unless people want to wear their garden gloves instead of a disposable kind.”
There’s also a sweet incentive for kids participating, as Dairy Queen will once again be providing Dilly Bars to students from both MacLeod Elementary and McNaughton High School that help in the cleanup.
The community cleanup also happens well in advance of the Communities in Bloom judges arrival in late July.
“We hope to have a good turnout, get the town really good and cleaned up, and then if we need to right before the judges come, maybe we’ll try to run another smaller cleanup,” Thorn said. “We’ll have to see what shape the town’s in at that time.”
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