Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Lions Club volunteers help to clean area
WEST GOSHEN » West Goshen Township is a lot cleaner today thanks to the West Chester Lions Club.
On Saturday, April 21, the West Goshen Lions Club hosted the 21st Annual Chester-Ridley-Crum Creek Watersheds Association Stream Clean-up on Carter Drive in the Matlack Industrial Park. For more than 10 years the West Goshen Lions in cooperation with CRC have been cleaning up this section of Goose Creek (West Branch of Chester Creek) in West Goshen Township.
As part of National Earth Week, 26 volunteers worked to clean the stream slopes, grassy and wooded surfaces, and hauled numerous items from the streambed. In addition to the typical bottles and cans, the volunteers found softballs, a volleyball, a bounceball, a chair, a shopping cart, tires, a machete, a saw blade, an arrow, a sleeping bag, a tarp, a fence rail and a trampoline.
This year’s volunteers included two adults and 12 members of Girl Scout Troop No. 4920 from the Glen Acres Elementary School. Two adult community volunteers, two adults and a family member from the CRC, and five adults and two family members from the host, West Goshen Lions. CRC and the Lions provided bags, gloves, waders, hand sanitizer, water, snack bars, and donuts to the volunteers.
Next year’s cleanup will take place on April 20, 2019, and interested individuals or groups should contact CRC at 610-3591440 or West Goshen Lions Don Bigler at 610-6925578.