WOW! What a fantastic neighborhood effort! This, our largest annual volunteer effort, broke all records. Hundreds of neighbors raked and bagged 483 bags of street and crosswalk leaves with some sidewalk and parkway leaves included. Thank you to all who volunteered including the GWCA Council Members, Street Leaf Cleanup Committee and Block Reps who led this effort and the crew from Aramark at Lake View High School. If you have photos, feel free to share on Facebook and Instagram @graceland_west_gwca.
This effort will help reduce street flooding, make neighborhood walking less slippery for all and make shoveling snow for parking spaces easier.
Streets and Sanitation picked up bagged leaves from parkways on Tuesday, Nov 17. If you’ve still got leaves to bag, please call 311 or Alderman Martin’s office for a special bagged pickup. As a reminder, it is illegal to rake or blow leaves into the street and you may be fined for violating city ordinance according to Sec. 10-8-480, which covers anything being littered in the public way. If you see a landscaping company or resident raking/blowing leaves into the street, you may alert Alderman Martin’s office.
