Successful Cleanup in Miami

Last Saturday Globe Clean and Beautiful and the Miami Genesis group sponsored a clean up event in Miami. About 90 volunteers met in Miami and hauled away about 85 tons of trash and debris. An additional 20 tons of metal and brush were also removed.

The groups say this is one of the most successful community cleanups to date. They thank Freeport McMoRan for their help in making the event possible by sponsoring the landfill fees. In the past Gila County has sponsored the cleanups and provided equipmnt and waived the landfill fees. But the county was not able to do that this time due to the current state of the economy.

The cleanup was also made possible by local companies who provided the necessary heavy equipment and other local businesses who provided food for the volunteers.

Thanks to:

Tetra Tech for a dump truck and backhoe with operators
5D mining for 2 backhoes and operators
DalMolin for 2 dump trucks with operators
Oddonetto Construction for a dump and backhoe with operators
Town of Miami for a dump truck and backhoe with operators

And Fry's, Safeway, Walmart, Southwest Gas, Guayo's on the Trail, El Rey in Miami, Libby's El Rey, Chalos in Miami and La Casita in downtown Globe for providing food for the volunteers.