Alley beautification project helps combat illegal dumping

Alley beautification project helps combat illegal dumping

TREASURE THANKS TO SOMECOMMITTED NEIGHBORS.

AND ASWMAR 2 NEW'S DAVE DETLINGREPORTS --- THEIR EFFORTS HALED TO LESS ILLEGAL DUMPING.WePatterson Park.

Weshow you green alley and youwonbecause the neighborhood hastaken trash into their ownhands.

TRAVEL DOWN GREEN ALLEIN PATTERSON PARK AND YOU WONFIND TRASH ON THE GROUND.LITTERING THE ALLEY ISGREENERY, GARDEN GNOMES ANDPOPS OF COLOR --- EVERYTHINGFROM FLOWERS TO ARTISTICMURALS.

Instead of turning ourbacks to the alley, we turnedtowards it in towards eachother.

Wethis for years.

THIS PASTWEEKEND A POST COVID CLEANUPWAS HELD TO BRING NEIGHBORSBACK TOGETHER.

IT HELPEREINFORCE COMMUNITY PRIDE ANDBEAUTIFICATION.

What werealized, itto come out and clean up butyouitgot to be a part of your homeSo now we all live on an agallery that we made NEIGHBORSAY MONEY FROM BEAUTIFICATIONGRANTS FROM THE HEALTHY HARBORINITIATIVE ALSO HELPED THEAST SIDE ALLEY.

Wemovies out here.

We foundparties out here so theycreate a space where thecommunity wasnthrough but they actuallywanted to come and stay inspace and use it for things soitlot.

BUT THE BIGGEST BONUS---- THE BRIGHT ATMOSPHERE HANEIGHBORS SEEING LESS TRAACCUMULATION AND ILLEGALDUMPING.

We have found that inthe last five years, since wefirst did our surface mural,which is the first and biggestin the city we have, we haveseen a drop in poor trashmanagement behavior and wecertainly seen a greater senseof ownership among people whocare.

The more connection thatyou have to your immediateenvironment, obviously themore you care, he more ywant to take of it.

Andneighbors here hope to inspirother Baltimoreans to initiatesimilar projects to help limittrash in the city.

WetalkinPark, Dave Detling, WMAR 2News.WE'VE BEEN HEARING MORE A