The Northwest Metis Council and five other volunteers were out cleaning up garbage around Dauphin.
Housing First Worker Terry Parenteau came up with the idea after he noticed all the garbage around town once the snow had melted.
Volunteers went out on Thursday afternoon and cleaned for about two hours where they collected 15 to 20 bags of garbage. They also found a few needles.
“I would like to thank community health for coming out and doing a little presentation for us on what to do if we find a needle. That helped us out,” said Parenteau. “It was good info about how to dispose of them and track down where we found them.”
They went around the train tracks, Vermillion Park, as well as back alleys and streets around central Dauphin.
He says he hopes to make this kind of clean up an annual thing, noting it could take place around Earth Day like it did this year.
