4/3 - 4/8: Keeping our neighbourhood clean

We take pride in our community and our community takes pride in not only our gym but our neighbourhood too. This was certainly evidenced by our volunteer event with Refuse Refuse a fantastic SF based organization that aims to keep our streets and neighbourhoods looking their best.

Thanks to our member Sara Melman who organised this fabulous event we were armed with necessary supplies including bag hoops, clips and trash pickers. After a quick brief we set out to pick up as much trash as we could around our gym. I think we all were a little surprised as to how much trash there is littering our streets. We spent the first 15 mins cleaning up the 200m from the gym along Valencia to the corner of Mission Street. Those trees we run past every week were filled with all manner of things.

It was a humbling and fun experience to go through and surprising too as to how many people thanked our group either walking by or in cars as they appreciated the effort we were making. After an hour of walking, talking and building dexterity with the pickers as well as filling our bags we headed back for some well deserved snacks and bubbly water.

Thank you to those that came and participated. This community we have is something very special and if you run/walk along Valencia Street this week I hope you notice how lovely it’s looking. We’ll definitely be doing this again!!

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