Volunteers clean up Annandale
There’s a lot less trash lining Columbia Pike after a couple dozen volunteers took part in an Annandale Cleanup on April 12.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 150 and some of their parents, kids from the Broyhill Crest Recreation Club’s Barracudas swim team, members of the Annandale Rotary Club, Del. Vivian Watts, and other local residents joined the cleanup crew.
They collected trash around the site of the demolished buildings at 7123 Columbia Pike, behind the Mando Kimbob restaurant and Bessie’s Pet Grooming, and up and down the street.
They filled dozens of trash bags with soda cans, takeout boxes, car parts, liquor bottles, cigarette butts, and assorted litter.
The cleanup was sponsored by the Annandale Rotary Club and the Annandale-Mason Roundtable, the organization that hosts the Taste of Annandale. Clean Fairfax provided bags and gloves.
“It’s really important that we help out in our community,” said cleanup organizer Joe Do, president of the Annandale Rotary Club and co-president of the Annandale-Mason Roundtable.
Do says, the owner of the property at 7123 Columbia Pike where the remains of three buildings destroyed in a fire were torn down in 2023 and two others remain boarded up “live out of town and don’t care about Annandale. But we do, and we’re making a difference in our neighborhood.”
The Annandale-Mason Roundtable invites community members, including Taste of Annandale sponsors and vendors, to a happy hour Wednesday, April 16, 6 p.m., at the Cue Club Café at 7016 Columbia Pike.
Meet your neighborhoods and learn what’s in store for the next Taste of Annandale, scheduled for Sept. 20 at the Eileen Garnett Civic Space.
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I applaud, congratulate, and thank those volunteers for cleaning this up. I am proud that my old Boy Scout Troop was involved. However, what I wonder and what concerns me is: Why was it necessary for these folks to do this? Back in my day, we didn’t have this trash problem and didn’t need to do these cleanups. What has changed? Particularly with regard to trash at commercial sites, I suspect someone is not following their obligations and responsibilities. Legal responsibilities. What’s going on here?
Yes, thank you so much to those who participated in beautifying our neighborhood. Please teach your children not to litter and set a good example. And please recycle everything you can.