Early Fall 2012 has been a very busy season for the people who live and work in the Bayshore and Gateway Triangle areas. This area has seen several events giving locals opportunities to clean up the neighborhood with outside support.

On September 15 Keep Collier Beautiful, a local non-profit, brought the annual waterway cleanup event to the area. This year the clean up was only offered at Bayview Park. Volunteers came from near and far to clean out Naples Bay and the adjacent shoreline. Keep Collier Beautiful supported the event by providing water, trash bags, gloves, and publicity. Collier County Waste Management supported the event by hauling away the trash. Keep your eyes open for the next cleanup for the water which will happen in April.

Volunteers pick up trash from scrub by the shore.

On October 6 Code Enforcement and the Sheriff Department sponsored a community cleanup for the Gateway Triangle community. Collier County Waste Management provided a dumpster, staged at Tree of Life Church on Shadowlawn Drive. Residents were encouraged to bring hazardous materials or large throw-away items that normally are not collected at curbside trash pick up. This event was a great success!

The E.T. Brisson Detachment #063 of the Marine Corps League continues to volunteer their time on Bayshore Drive monthly. That group is a steward to 1.5 miles of right-of-way. They come rain-or-shine and clean out all trash that is found along the road. The

Volunteers from the Marine Corps League outside the CRA Office.

 group’s last cleanup was on October 6. 11 members of the group showed up to work and they collected approximately 120 pounds of trash along Bayshore Drive. The CRA sends our Marine Corps League a HUGE THANK YOU!!!