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Kentwood Elected Officials and Town Employees
Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell |
Happy Earth day is a day to clean up and beautify your community. We all should take part in taking care of our plant by picking up trash and litter or perhaps plant flowers and trees. Kentwood residents met at the Kentwood Community Center ready to spruce up the town. After the residents were signed in, they were issued a plastic garbage bag, gloves, and tee shirts.
This year's Happy Earth day clean up was organized by Yolanda Callaghan a city employee for the Town of Kentwood.
Kentwood Mayor, Irma T. Gordon and several town council members joined in. Councilman Terrell Hookfin, Councilman Gary Callihan, and Councilwoman Irma Clines were there with their sleeves rolled up ready to work. Many of the town employees worked sided by side with the residents picking up litter. Constable Lemmie Chapman III, is a strong voice in the Kentwood community picking up trash and litter on our streets and highways were there picking up trash as usually.
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Constable Lemmie Chapman III
Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell |
There has been 46 environmental victories since the first earth day. The first earth day was on April 22, 1970. 20 million people across the United States took to the street to raise awareness about our environment. Today, Kentwood residents came out to be a part of keeping our town clean. Several children joined the Happy Earth day clean up.
It's never to early to teach children not to be a litter bug. We should teach them not to throw candy and other snack wrappers on the ground, and in our beautiful lakes and ponds that could be harmful to the wildlife. Beside having a clean community make everyone who live in the community feel good about their community. One of the main issues that the constable pointed out is the number of tires they are picking up that is being discarded on the side of the highway and streets in our community. Please beware that if you are caught throwing litter, trash and tires on the streets and highway. You will receive a ticket and may have to do community hours picking up litter.
