Earth Day

Ralston celebrated Earth Day yesterday, this marks the 53rd annual Earth
Day celebration in Ralston. The festivities focused mainly around city hall park with hundreds of attendees. Parents, children, and families flocked to participate in trash cleanup efforts and arts and crafts projects using recycled materials.

Later substantially fewer families and childrens, but still a substantial number of people stuck around to listen to the mayor’s address regarding the new energy proposals they had and would work on in the coming year. Across the island/city people were celebrating in their own ways, there were a number of neighborhood “trash walks” and the various parks and natural areas saw more admittance and attendance than ever before breaking last year’s records. This event, this day has shown the commitment of the community to the betterment and benefit of the earth.

The Ralston Waste Disposal Agency has informed us of some statistics regarding the cleanup effort of Ralston’s citizens. The RWDA says that the beach cleanup committee cleaned up an impressive 543 pounds of trash from Ralston’s beaches. The RWDA also mentioned another 467 pounds of garbage from the neighborhood cleanup effort. One manager at RWDA jokingly stated, “We’d actually like you to consider cleaning up less next year, hehehe, we can’t handle all this crap at once.” The positive spin on this is to make a resolution to stay cleaner overall to reduce the workload on the good men and women of the waste disposal industry.