With more Kenai area residents outside due to health mandates as well as the warm weather, residual trash is being discovered in neighborhoods, parks, and sidewalks. Now is the perfect time to get outside and help the peninsula look as beautiful as it can look for the spring and summer months.
Shanon Davis, Executive Director of the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce, told KSRM that the Chamber is partnering with the Kenai Peninsula Borough to sort out the procedures for distributing bags. Typically, yellow bags are used throughout the area to make it easy for residents to help perform some spring cleaning.
The area needs a little extra help as one of the biggest clean-up events of the year, the Kenai River Clean-Up, has been cancelled. This would have marked the seventh annual clean-up. Just last year, the sixth annual Kenai River Clean-Up collected 2,330 lbs of trash from Soldotna-area parks. Hundreds of students participated in the clean-up effort.
The Kenai River Spring Clean-Up Committee said they are committed to renewing the mission next spring, in a statement issued late-March.
Any time is a good time to be responsible with our neighborhood, but now that the snow is no longer hiding our collective trash mistakes, grab a trash bag and beautify the Kenai.