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April 2, 2008 by Alex Hillman

Indy Hall cleans house . . .

Filed under: Announcements, Community Support, Events

. . . or more appropriately, cleans Philly.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Location changed to 5th and Cambridge this Saturday (evidently they have too many people coming to Penn Treaty Park)

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This Saturday April 5th at 10am join Indy Hall and 10,000 other enthusiastic Philadelphians as we work side by side with Mayor Nutter in giving our city some well deserved TLC

The Challenge: “During my 2007 mayoral campaign I pledged to clean up Philadelphia. As your Mayor, I am going to fulfill this promise by reducing the amount of litter and trash that plague our city’s neighborhoods, streets, parks and recreation centers. I have made litter reduction a priority in my administration and am committed to making Philadelphia one of the cleanest cities in America.” – Mayor Michael Nutter.

The Oppurtunity: We need to give our city a good Spring Cleaning! On April 5th, join thousands of your fellow citizens in neighborhoods across the city as we try to make Philadelphia a more beautiful place.

The Plan: A group of Indy Hallers and friends will meet at Penn Treaty Park, under the statue, 5th and Cambridge, at 10am to get their delicate coding/design/writing/typing hands dirty making Philly cleaner. Stay as long as you can, wear your Indy Hall T-shirts and follow @davespeers on twitter for news and updates through out the day.

  • val

    sorry i can’t be there – i have a funeral in baltimore on sat.

  • http://www.codecontortionist.com Dave Martorana

    AHH I can’t be there! Have a family obligation on the wife’s side. I’ll also be missing Fork You. Sorry guys, not trying to weasel out of a little cleaning!

  • http://www.davidspeers.com Dave Speers

    Official Recap:
    According to the Weather.com, it was supposed to rain Saturday for Philly Spring Clean Up. It wasn’t supposed to break 50 degrees. People were supposed to look out their windows that morning at the cold dampness and suddenly realize that there were 1000 things they would rather do inside that morning. I was supposed to be standing alone in a borrowed rain jacket hoping that someone would show up at 5th and Cambridge. Michael Nutter’s first big initiative to clean up Philly was supposed to go down as ‘a good first try’. It was supposed to be miserable.

    Never listen to Weather.com! It was sunny and gorgeous maxing out at just over 60. Salas Saraiya,Reed Gustow, Lisa Thompson, John + Bri Betcher, Jason Tremblay and myself joined thousands of other Philadelphians in picking up the worst Philly has to offer, including used condoms and a variety of crack baggies (don’t worry, Lisa had latex gloves for us). The Indy Hall crew cleaned Girard from 5th to 2nd, down American St, and back up to 5th along George picking up millions of cigarette butts along the way (OK, that’s a little bit of an exaggeration)

    We picked up a lot of litter, had a bunch of fun but most importantly helped love our city.

    Some Highlights
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/aninja/sets/72157604395686568/

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  • Cass

    Rally for Fairmount Park – tomorrow, April 15th, at 12 noon in front of City Hall.

    Mayor Nutter has proposed $3 million in increased funding for the Park this year. Come out and let Council know you support the Park and the Mayor.