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Cleaning Tubbs Hill Year Round Job

Posted by DFO

Feb. 18, 2009 5:47 p.m. • 5 comments

I work hard year round to keep Tubbs Hill the jewel that it is. I pick up glass, garbage, and I search out the hidden drinking areas. The most fun part I pick up other people’s doggie poo. Last summer I was given by the Tubbs Hill foundation and blogger Don Sausser 7500 dog poo bags. Guess what? I am already down to my last 2000. I know I have missed a few, it is winter and I don’t have a poo detector or a pick axe/Walkaround/Walkaround. Full post below.

Today’s terrific Tubbs Hill thread

Question: Have you ever participated in cleaning Tubbs Hill or any of the local road sides, in an effort to further viewtify the area?

I’m the “lovely lady” that MikeK mentioned earlier. I hardly ever toot my own horn but here it goes. I work hard year round to keep Tubbs Hill the jewel that it is. I pick up glass, garbage, and I search out the hidden drinking areas. The most fun part I pick up other people’s doggie poo. Last summer I was given by the Tubbs Hill foundation and blogger Don Sausser 7500 dog poo bags. Guess what? I am already down to my last 2000. I know I have missed a few, it is winter and I don’t have a poo detector or a pick axe. Anyway, Tubbs Hill is nothing like the other parks in town. In no other park will I meet fellow volunteers cleaning up like I did just the other day. They had two trash bags full plus they hauled out a huge piece of foam. When was the last time any of you carried a microwave off of Tubbs Hill that had been dumped off a cliff? My point is that Tubbs Hill stays the treasure that it is because some people care enough to volunteer their time and energy to keep it that way. Tubbs Hill doesn’t need a promoter it needs a few extra pairs of hands.

You can walk or kayak around Tubbs Hill without the need to advertise or profit from it.

Five comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cindy_H on February 18 at 5:56 p.m.
If Walkabout is Stickman’s lovely bride and partner in all things huckleberry, like those delicious tarts and the jam that is the elixir of the gods, I just want to say thank you.
Thank you for sharing your husband with us and thank you especially for keeping Tubb’s Hill so beautiful.
Stickman on February 18 at 7:22 p.m.
Just a simple correction, it’s ‘Walkabout’.
Stickman on February 19 at 4:04 p.m.
Thanks Cindy for the nice words. Walkabout works very hard every single day of the year keeping Tubbs Hill as pristine as she can. She never comments on here but reads once in awhile. This subject really got her going, hence her comments recently about not having any commercial ventures on the Hill. If you want to go for a walk, just go, the Hill is beautiful.

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