In 2008, four organized school groups participated in the cleanup. Vaca Pena Middle School Associate Principal Kevin Cullen and his staff ran a student cleanup along the biking-walking path between Eleanor Nelson Park and Patwin Park near old Alamo Creek, which brought out 125 students, parents and staff who collected nearly 900 pounds of trash and debris. Click here to see them in action.
Will C. Wood teacher Jared Ropelato ran a student cleanup along the biking–walking path near the Wood High School between Marshal Road and Hume Way, bringing together 46 students from the Link Crew Club who collected 1,500 pounds of trash and debris. Click here to see the Link Crew at work.
Vaca High Key Club members ran a cleanup under the bridge at Farrell Road and North Orchard Avenue along Ulatis Creek where 24 students and City staff collected over 500 pounds of trash and debris. Click here to see the Key Club hard at work! Country High students, teachers, and principal joined the Beelard Park cleanup again this year, bringing out about 10 volunteers. Click here to see the Beelard Park cleanup effort.
City staff and their families ran two cleanup groups at the Southwood Park site. Ten members from the 4 WD Cliffhangers of Vacaville cleaned up the embedded and difficult trash from the section of Alamo Creek at Davis and Alamo Street, removing nearly 1,200 pounds of trash and debris. Click here to see the Cliffhangers digging deep to clean up the creek! The second group of 60 students and parents from various Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops collected over 900 pounds of trash and debris along the biking and walking path from Peabody, Marshal, and Alamo Road.
The Pintail and Fruitvale Cleanup along Ulatis Creek was run by a City staff volunteer that brought 9 students out, collecting over 100 pounds of trash and debris. City staff and their families ran the Centennial Park Drop-In cleanup site along Horse Creek which brought out 81 volunteers who collected nearly 1,000 pounds of trash and debris. Click here for a shot of some civic-minded Girl Scouts! Three senior citizens from the Leisure Town community cleaned up along the walking path from Sequoia to Elmira Road, collecting nearly 100 pounds of trash and debris.
The Regency Dental Group cleaned up along the biking-walking path at Hawkins Park along Alamo Creek where 84 volunteers collected over 600 pounds of trash and debris. Click here to see Regency Dental’s cleanup crew at work!
Fitness 19 owner Mike Doucette rounded up 22 staff and volunteers from the community to team up with city staff who bravely cleaned piles and piles of unsightly garbage carelessly strewn along the banks of Ulatis Creek at the McClellan and Depot at Mason Street where they collected nearly 3,000 pounds of trash and debris!
Click here to see the Fitness 19 effort!
RW Mechanical and staff ran a cleanup along the biking-walking path between Alamo and California Drive with a family style barbeque after the cleanup for their 34 volunteers who collected 1,900 pounds of trash and debris at their site. Click here to see RW Mechanical’s team do some heavy lifting! Alza Corporation sponsored the cleanup site at the Beelard Park biking and walking path providing staff to run the cleanup where 123 volunteers collected over 400 pounds of trash and debris.
Vacaville volunteers came out to make a difference by cleaning up their local watershed. The Creek Cleanup event not only removed trash potentially headed to our waterways, polluting them, but also helped create an awareness within the community that between 60 -80 percent of the trash found on our beaches and shorelines on California Coastal Cleanup Day comes from inland creeks or city streets just like ours.
