Workers were kept busy last Saturday and the weekend before during Becker City/Twp. and Haven Township’s annual clean-up days. Haven Township had over 200 households participate in their ever-popular event.

 

The event was very successful, with seventeen residents dropping off items they removed from township ditches, two full trucks of reusable items gathered for the Sherburne Master Gardeners group, and a record 34 bikes collected for St. Cloud State University’s Yellow Bike Project. The bikes are refurbished, repainted and placed throughout campus for SCSU students to use.

 

Boy Scout Troop 13 from SE St. Cloud helped out at the event, which had steady traffic throughout the morning.

 

Extremely long lines lined 2nd St. SE, waiting to drive into the Maintenance Dept. grounds to unload their vehicles, truck beds, trailers and trunks.

 

The rain came down hard for most of last Saturday’s event, but that didn’t thwart the popular event — allowing residents to clean out their basements and garages and get rid of items standard garbage collectors do not take.

 

Some vehicles waiting in line up to an hour. Mayor Tracy Bertram and her husband Mark were on hand along with Council Member Mike Doering and other city officials. Air-conditioners, TVs, mattresses, furniture and computer equipment were popular items brought in for the six-hour event.