OLD BROOKLYN, OH - For the third consecutive year, some NEOCHMM members and some family members went hands on to protect the environment. We again partnered with the West Creek Preservation Committee ("WCPC") for the 2009 RiverSweep. RiverSweep is an annual event sponsored by the Ohio and Eire Canal Association to clean up and beautify the corridor along the Ohio and Eire Canal, the Cuyahoga River and its tributaries. Many environmental groups coordinate their efforts on this day to have a greater impact on the river basin. Our thanks to Colby Sattler, Watershed Coordinator for the WCPC, for setting up this event.
This year, the WCPC asked us to assist them in maintaining a conservation easement near Hamondy Park and along Treadway Creek in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. While a separate group worked along Big Creek, near Jennings Road, NEOCHMM took on the upper reaches of Treadway Creek. We linked up with some neighborhood children, teens and even some adults, that were helpful in showing us the lay of the land. At the start of the event, the entire group laughed, when NEOCHMM Secretary and Old Brooklyn resident, Rich Kalynchuk, pointed out the slide in the play area where his kid got his “first broken arm.”
