Ridgeleigh Association Hosts Community Clean-Up

A Parkville area community will get a head start on celebrating Earth Day this weekend when they host a neighborhood "clean & green" Saturday morning.

Ridgeleigh Community Association president Bill Deysher said that his group needs help planting trees along streets, flowers near community signs and in a neighborhood park, and picking up litter.

The community "clean & green" will be held Saturday morning, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 20 at Ridgeleigh Park, 1770 White Oak Avenue in Parkville, according to a flier emailed by community association vice-president Karen Fitze.

"We will be adding to and replanting the children's garden in the playground area. A local Boy Scout troop will install a natural climbing play feature for the children to run along," Fitze wrote in the email. "We will be sprucing up the community gateway signs and will also be picking up trash throughout the neighborhood. One of our big items on the agenda is the planting of street trees that home owners have signed up for."

Refreshments will be provided, Fitze wrote, and children will have an opportunity to make crafts.

Potential volunteers are asked to contact Bill Deysher either by email at president@ridgeleigh.net or phone 410-350-5283.