2026 Martin Luther King Day of Service Clean Up – Academy Sherman Park

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UPDATE:   Monday January 19 clean up is cancelled due to extreme cold.  We will be cutting up tires on Tuesday starting at 9 am at the corner of Hodiamont Tracks and Clarendon.  Feel free to join if you are available.

UPDATE:   We will be working in Academy Sherman Park.

Park in the lot on the corner of Hodiamont Tracks and Kingshighway blvd (It is a closed restaurant lot).  Walk West on Hodiamont Tracks to the first dumpster/registration area.  Check in at the table, pick up your gloves, bags, snacks and assignment.

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If you are available, we will be assisting residents with picking up their trash and loading dumpsters on SATURDAY morning from 10 – noon.

We will be doing the same on MONDAY morning from 9 – 11 but we need volunteers who can stay on or arrive late until about 1 pm to help with the final post scouting clean up.

This year the the Annual Greg Poleski Clean up will take place on Martin Luther King Jr’s Day of Service, Monday January 19.  It will be an urban clean up in North St Louis City in one of the communities hardest hit by the tornado.  Check-in at 8:30.  Safety talk at 9 am.  Clean up will run until noon.  You will be notified by email of the precise location once it has been confirmed.  Remember that January clean ups are particularly affected by weather and conditions on the ground, so we often have to make last minute changes to ensure the safety of our volunteers and the success of the clean up.

This clean up has been made possible by a grant from the Mississippi Rivers Cities and Towns Initiative as part of a plastic reduction program.  You can download the Marine Debris Tracker application and start entering plastic pollution data wherever you are.  We will log as much plastic waste a possible from this clean up.    https://debristracker.org/

2026 Greg Poleski MLK Day of Service

Each year, the Greenway Network volunteer crew gathers to honor our founder Greg Poleski for a clean up. We traditionally do this on the Martin Luther King Day of Service in January. Scheduling things in January can be very difficult. We need to make changes due to weather and/or conditions on the ground. These changes may result in a delay or even a change of location. So it is difficult to state precisely where we will be gathering.

This year we are working on scheduling an urban clean up to continue helping some of the communities hardest hit by the tornado. However, we do not yet have the specific details. We do know that if the clean up proceeds, we will begin registration at 8:30 with a safety talk at 9 am. Dress for the weather. Wear sturdy boots and shoes. Bring a water bottle. Be prepared for picking up trash, loading dumpsters, assisting citizens with trash or moving tires and other heavy objects.

Register your crew here. We will email you with the location and any changes in tasks or times as soon as we are able.

In the case the event is cancelled due to weather or river conditions, it will take place on April 11.

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