CUAW Groups & Sites

Bridgestone/Firestone

Firestone Complete Auto Care™ and Tires Plus™, was very helpful with CUAW as they have been for quite a few years now. MaryAnn Roach, a veteran employee of Bridgestone/Firestone, organized a cleaning of one of Akron’s badly littered areas. In Just 2 hours, This dedicated group of employees pulled out 48 bags of trash, 6 tires, 1 bike tire, a sewing machine, bed frame and springs, street barricade, a gun, dishes, a couch, and a snow shovel.

 

 

Downtown Akron Partnership

This year, the Downtown Akron Partnership collaborated with Keep Akron Beautiful and held their annual Green & Clean Day held on Friday, May 7 of Clean Up Akron Week. This year 350 volunteers and helped to beautify downtown Akron by collecting 50 bags of litter and cleaning 39 benches and picnic tables, 37 planters, 47 Ash Urns, 2 parking lots, 77 parking meters and 89 tree grates. Volunteers also swept 167 blocks of sidewalk, picked up thousands of cigarette butts and pulled weeds on 225 blocks … WOW!

           

Cascade Locks Park Association

The Cascade Locks Park Association has worked with Keep Akron Beautiful for many years now, participating in Clean Up Akron Week annually and conducting a second clean up every fall. This year, 224 volunteers met on Saturday morning, April 24th, and cleaned for four hours. Using the Mustill Store as a starting point, they cleaned for 2 1/2 miles along the canal

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