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First Taste of Community Service (TrailBlazers) April 14th 2016

  By phb5037 • May 5, 2016 , , ,

Last Friday (April 8th 2016) a member of our group went to the trail to help with the cleanup. We cleaned up bottles, plastic, and trash of all kinds that was scattered all over the place. It was honestly amazing the amount of trash that was making this beautiful area look so dirty and run down. The thing that blew my mind was how far down the trail people went to dump things such as an entire bathroom sink, tires, sheetrock etc. The group did find a rope swing over the river which did give some hope for this area being used for recreation against instead of dumping. The sheer amount of beer bottles littering the area was disgusting with broken class covering the trail making it hazardous for biker rider and regular pedestrians alike. I took some pictures of the trail to show the ups and the downs of it. Much of the area was covered in graffitti which took away the natural beauty of the nature.

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First Day of Community Service (TrailBlazers) 4/14/16

  By phb5037 • April 14, 2016 , , ,

Last Friday (4/9/16) I (Patrick Bompartito) went to the trail to start helping with the clean up. We helped to clean up trash like bottles, plastic containers and wrappers and everything. What really amazed me was how far into the trail people went to dump things. The types of trash we found were things like a full sized bathroom sink, bike and car tires, mattresses and broken glass everywhere. The broken glass poses a threat to bikers on the bath and pedestrians alike. We did find a rope swing near the river which showed some hope of the area being used for recreation again instead of dumping. There was also a lot of graffiti on the walls which took away from the natural beauty of the area. I took some pictures of the trash we cleaned up and also the good and bad of the trail.

 

Trash From Reading Trail

 

Rope Swing Near the trailReading Trail Graffiti

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Introduction to the TrailBlazers

  By phb5037 • February 9, 2016 , ,

Photo on 2-11-16 at 1.50 PM #2

Our team name is the Trail blazers…. get it, TRAIL. Our group members are Patrick Bompartito, Sean Williamson and Noah Azar. Sean is an SRA Major, Noah is an Accounting Major and I am an Economics Major. We are hoping to work on the Schyulkill trail. If not we would like top work with the Reading beautification project. We all really enjoy nature its pretty dope.