The Little Italy Neighborhood Watch

Once a year, you see a few or a lot of your neighbors wandering around picking up trash along the streets and sidewalks. It’s about to happen again. Saturday, April 19th is the 12th annual Day of Caring as sponsored by the United Way and many other local Erie groups, including the Little Italy Neighborhood Watch. This is a great way to pitch in and help to, literally, clean up the neighborhood.

All you have to do to help is join your neighbors for a couple of hours on Saturday morning to pick up some of the trash that litters the neighborhood. Dumpsters will be available. Someone else will haul away all the bags of trash you collect. You can work as hard or as lightly as you want. Your participation is what matters, and for that, you will be rewarded.

You don’t have to get your hands dirty because the Department of Transportation has donated work gloves to all participants. You don’t have to worry about traffic because they’ve also donated safety vests so you’ll be visible. And the Erie Seawolves baseball team is once again offering free tickets to a game for all the volunteers.

Believe it or not, this really is a pleasant way to spend a lovely Saturday morning. It doesn’t take a lot of time or effort, the neighborhood looks better when we’re done, and you get to go to a ball game later.

The cleanup team representing the Little Italy Neighborhbood Watch is meeting at 9:00am Saturday morning at the Sisters of St. Joseph Neighborhood Network at 425 West 18th Street. Come join us!