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| Above, James Pierce and David Booker pull a couple of the dozen shopping carts fished out of First Creek during the October cleanup. At this spot in the creek, James and David found eight carts nestled together underwater.
Below, Jerry Rivers helps pull a grocery cart out of the creek as David Booker pushes.
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How would you like to find $3000 on a pleasant Saturday morning? On Saturday, October 15th that's exactly what ten
Cariten Healthcare volunteers and eight residents of Old North Knoxville found during the fall First Creek Cleanup. Unfortunately, it was in the form of 12 shopping carts that had been dumped into First Creek. At a cost of between $200 and $250 a piece, that comes out to between $2400 and $3000. There is no reward for returned shopping carts. In fact, the stores from which they originally came don't want them back. That means there is several thousand dollars in costs that get passed on to you and me when we go to the store.
And while the shopping carts may have been the largest items pulled from the creek, they were not the only things picked up from in the creek and around the First Creek Greenway. Other items collected and thrown in the dumpster included three pipes, one car seat, one man hole cover, four sleeping bags, six tires, two pieces of angle iron, one small plastic kid's pool, and at least sixteen bags of trash. All this from the part of the creek and greenway running from W. Glenwood to Grainger.
Thank you to Penny Baxter, Gwynn Evans, James Pierce, Tim
Fisher, Beth Fisher, Karl Hess, Margo Kagan, Lauren
Rider, Monica Holder, Jerry Rivers, Mary Woolley, Malik
Sowards, Casi Harper, Adam Jones, Mark A. Jordan, Cherie
Jones, Beth Booker, and David Booker for volunteering a few hours of their weekend and their muscles to help out. A special thank you to
Gwynn Evans for organizing the Cariten volunteers.
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| Above, some of the dozen carts fished out of First Creek.
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Thank you, too, to the City of Knoxville for providing dumpsters, gloves, bags, waders, hooks, and other tools that helped make the creek cleanup successful and to
KUB (Knoxville Utilities Board) for providing bottled water and to Old North Knoxville for providing the pizza afterward. Another cleanup is planned for the spring of 2006.
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