Monday, November 12, 2012
Bread and Cheese Creek volunteers picked up and recycled 208 abandoned election signs.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
The volunteers of Clean Bread and Cheese Creek are interested in more than just the health of an important Chesapeake Bay tributary. They want to live in a clean community, period. To that end, six volunteers from the group swept across Dundalk Thursday evening to pick up and recycle many of the election signs left behind by campaign workers who put the signs up but rarely return to take them down. Citing the leftover signs as an eyesore and a safety hazard, Bread and Cheese Creek President John Long said in an email to Dundalk Patch that the group picked up and recycled 208 signs and dozens of steel sign frames from which the signs had been removed. "It bothers me that many of the groups who placed the political signs talk about civic …
Sunday, October 14, 2012
More than 40 volunteers from two organizations cleaned up the Stansbury-Eastfield community and park on Saturday.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
by John Long More than 40 volunteers arrived on a crisp October Saturday morning to clean up Stansbury Park. The effort was organized by the Eastfield-Stansbury Civic Association and assisted by Clean Bread and Cheese Creek. Volunteers walked the shorelines, combed the beaches and searched through bushes to remove bottles, cans and fast food waste a-plenty. Golf balls and fishiing equipment (bobbers, bait containers, lures and fishing line) were also removed in abundance. By the end of the cleanup, 35 trash bags of trash as well as two and a half shopping carts, a bicycle, a scooter and a construction cone had been removed from the park allowing its natural beauty to shine through again. Clean Bread and Cheese Creek would like to thank …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
More than 120 volunteers worked for six hours on Sept. 15 to pick up trash and clear debris from the Dundalk creek.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
By John Long President and Founder, Clean Bread and Cheese Creek More than 121 volunteers from Clean Bread and Cheese Creek worked from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 15 to clean the Berkshire portion of the waterway. The crew cut up and removed eight fallen trees that were blocking the flow of the stream and filled a forty-yard dumpster with trash and debris collected from the stream and its banks. Volunteers filled 475 trash bags and collected more than 2,000 pounds of metal, which included six shopping carts, five unused shotgun shells, five full cans of spray paint, three bicycles, two scooters, two tire rims and a port hole. Other trash collected included two television sets, a recliner, a car battery, a lawnmower, a concrete donkey, five …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Storms toppled three large trees, effectively blocking water flow in the fragile creek.
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- Marge Neal
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
On a routine stroll along Bread and Cheese Creek on Saturday, local environmentalist John Long discovered that a large tree had fallen across the stream, nearly completely blocking water flow. "I couldn't see at the time that it had taken two other trees with it," Long, founder of Clean Bread and Cheese Creek, said Monday. "But the water was almost completely blocked, and it would have had to travel around the tree and up the banks to get by — there would have been substantial erosion." Nearby properties could also have been flooded if the trees remained in place, he said. Long put out an emergency email to volunteers and posted a plea for help on the organization's Facebook page to organize a last-minute cleanup for Sunday. Ten volunteers…
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Clean Bread and Cheese Creek volunteers participated in a community cleanup of Stansbury Park and pond on Saturday.
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- Marge Neal
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
In celebration of Earth Day, community residents, including about 18 volunteers from Clean Bread and Cheese Creek, swept through Stansbury Park, cleaning the grounds and around the pond.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Saturday cleanup crew of 115 volunteers collected more than 50 yards of trash and debris.
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- Marge Neal
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Thanks to 115 volunteers who spent their Saturday cleaning along a local waterway, the Clean Bread and Cheese Creek group was able to far exceed its cleanup goal. The plan was to clean the creek from Merritt Boulevard to Plainfield Road, but the "incredible volunteers" made it to Willow Road, according to group founder John Long. Volunteers found plenty to keep busy for six hours. Workers cut up and removed three downed trees that were blocking the stream; removed 30 yards (307 bags) of trash and debris; 20 yards of metal, which included seven shopping carts, five cans of paint, two bicycles, a lawn mower, a wheelchair, an engine head and the bumper of a 1972 Chevelle, Long said. Other collected debris included seven tires, a cement dual …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The award-winning documentary film, "The Big Uneasy," produced by Harry Shearer, explores the New Orleans catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina.
A local environmental group is partnering with actor, comedian and filmmaker Harry Shearer Tuesday night to host the Baltimore premiere of "The Big Uneasy" at the Charles Theater. Among other projects, Shearer is also renowned for his work on The Simpsons and the heavy metal spoof, Spinal Tap. Shearer's highly-acclaimed documentary chronicles the levee breakdowns preceding the flooding of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. John Long, who founded Clean Bread and Cheese Creek in 2009, was contacted about co-hosting the film by one of Shearer's representatives after the filmmaker came across the Dundalk environmental organization's website. "In every city where the film is premiering, he's giving a local environmental …
Doug
9:24 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Matt Why the negative comments about this hard-working group of volunteers? The article was written by Marge Neal from Patch. It made you aware of a trash problem in Dundalk, one that could be prevented. Environmental groups promote their cleanups. Many people "do the right thing everyday in the community", but not enough people to make Dundalk a trash-free place to live. More volunteers and … more ›