Before moving downtown, I was walking along First Street, and I noticed a mom and daughter, both with gloves on and a trash bag, picking up trash from the sidewalk. I thought “what a fantastic idea! What a great way to teach your child to take care of the environment, etc.”

Now that I live down here, I have realized how neglected downtown Reno is when it comes to keeping it clean! I see the same trash on the sidewalks (or  beer bottles, vomit, etc) for weeks on end. I think it is so sad that there is no one keeping downtown beautiful and clean! We have such a perfect and scenic and culturally and artistically creative place down here, and it’s covered with trash. A lot of people I talk to think of downtown this way. How sad.

I think we should maybe do this at one of our next meetings- get some coffee and then clean up downtown! Of course we’d need some good gloves (who knows what we’ll find!) and some trash bags. I think it would teach our children something and also help other appreciate the beauty of downtown as much as we do!