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Cleaning up Homer

Published 10:30 pm Wednesday, May 7, 2014

A VW hubcap is one item collected during Cleanup Day that Marshall Fuller, left, and Andrew Anderson of Boy Scout Troop 365 decided not to throw away.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
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A VW hubcap is one item collected during Cleanup Day that Marshall Fuller, left, and Andrew Anderson of Boy Scout Troop 365 decided not to throw away.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
A VW hubcap is one item collected during Cleanup Day that Marshall Fuller, left, and Andrew Anderson of Boy Scout Troop 365 decided not to throw away.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
Just wanting “to do my part,” Martha Roderick focuses her cleanup efforts on Bishop’s Beach on Saturday.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
From left, Clyde Boyer, Lorna Olson, Vivian Finley and Sandy Eherenman of Homer Kachemak Bay Rotary, spend Saturday morning cleaning up the “Rotary Mile” along the Sterling Highway.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News
Having adopted Karen Hornaday Park, a Church on the Rock work crew, as well as other community volunteers, spent Saturday sprucing up the playground, picnic area and fields. Left side, front to back: Kevin, Stephan, Kailee and Kyle; right side, front to back: Ethan, Trevor, Jenna and Tyler. Last names were not available. Not pictured: Calvin Ralph.-Photo by McKibben Jackinsky, Homer News

Prizes for Cleanup Day, an annual event organized by the Homer Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center with 117 participants this year, went to:

• Individual-family: first, Shirley Fedora; second, Jenny Lemieux; third, the Sweeney family.

• Group: first, HoWL with 68 participants, 132 bags of recycling, 705 bags of garbage and 42 tires; second, Boy Scout Pack 555; third, Boy Scout Troop 555. 

• Bicycles: Highley Watson, Diane Lemieux, Haley Owen and Carleigh Nevak. 

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