Volunteers Make Wheeling Shine
May 4, 2021
If Wheeling is serious about marketing itself as a low-cost, low-crime, family friendly location for remote workers to move and live, then volunteer-based community events such as the Make Wheeling Shine effort that took place this past Saturday are critical in ensuring the city presents itself well.
About 100 volunteers in Wheeling came out Saturday to clean up playgrounds and other areas from a long winter of litter and other assorted debris. They collected hundreds of bags of trash to be taken to the landfill.
Groups such as Generation Wheeling and the Wheeling YWCA brought volunteers to take part. There also were Wheeling Park High School students and other residents involved.
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WHEELING Dozens of people flocked to Wheeling’s local parks to pick up refuse and debris from the area, beautifying the city as part of the third annual Make Wheeling Shine event.
Armed with distinctive green bags, several people hit the pavement at the crack of 9 Saturday morning at Pulaski Field and Elks’ Playground. City Parks and Rec Director Rochelle Barry said they had 100 people signed up city-wide for the event by the morning. Wheeling Park High School students, Barry said, signed up as a group to clean up the Pleasanton playground near Wheeling University.
Barry was at Pulaski Field a few minutes ahead of schedule, with a few volunteers from Generation Wheeling, the local chapter of Generation WV’s network. Barry said the purpose of the day’s cleanup was to make the city not only more beautiful, but safer for residents.