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Bookers' porch, from the right: Andy Anderson, James Pierce, Katherine
McNicholas, Margo Hughes, and JoAnn Anderson. Below, there is always
something fascinating to see at a neighborhood cleanup!
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By David
E. Booker
The weather on April 1st was pleasant, with a clear sky and mild temperatures. Eight Old North Knoxville residents and Mike Stringfield, Work Project Coordinator with the State of Tennessee Dept. of Probation and Parole, and eight of his crew walked around all of Old North Knoxville and collected 27 bags of trash, picking up everything from candy wrappers to clothing to pop cans to beer bottles to even part of a drum (as in oil drum, though it wasn’t large enough to be an oil drum). Additionally, residents of Old North availed themselves of the two dumpsters parked in the neighborhood in order through away things like an old box spring and mattress and old wet books.
After the cleanup, Beth Booker and Amy Broyles had prepared a lunch of BBQ pork, beans, other side items, and desert. Thank you to residents Lauren Rider, Katherine McNicholas, Cynthia Runyon, Margo Hughes, Andy, Joann, and Sonya Anderson, and David Booker. And thank you to Mike Stringfield and his workers. At its annual May luncheon Keep Knoxville Beautiful recognized Old North for being the neighborhood organization to gather up the most trash, an equivalent of 146 bags.
A fall neighborhood cleanup is being planned. Contact Beth Booker at or 524-8515 to help.
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