Putzmunter starts Felix, armed with trash grippers, gloves and safety vest, on his little wheel to take part in the action "Clean City". He is accompanied by mom and grandma. Felix is the first time, his great-grandfather, Franz, former chairman of the Traffic and Beautification Association had launched this initiative to life 42 years ago.
In bright sunshine, the hardworking crew starts punctually at 14 o'clock from the fire station Vorm Eicker Mountain. As VVV-CEO Bernd White reported around 130 collector roads, divided into 18 districts around Wermelskirchen. It does not include that. About 30 collectors in Hünger that start at the same time in their districts
The Bicycle Club with Frank and Ursel Schopphoff start as a group of six children and adolescents between seven and 17 years of age. They have made a stretch of the Balkan route and collect, equipped with safety reflective vests, gloves and grip the garbage along the popular bike path.
"We could have a good hour longer can be on the road so much garbage was on the line," said Ursel Schopphoff. The ADFC group had followers here. Felix Jörgens also found with mom and grandma around 16 pm at the fire station and reported proudly that the group has collected four garbage bags in the area around the car park behind the Sparkasse. Chiare Sedellke (11), member of the Youth Red Cross is for the second time, and she has fun again in the action. Headed by Manuela they liberated the city center of rubbish that others have left behind.
Mayor Rainer receives suggestions
Mayor Rainer is also on site. He attended some meeting, a picture on the spot makes, accepts suggestions and distributed sweets. In Dabringhausen and Dhünn he has been previously, now he has reached his last station, the fire station. Bleek finds it particularly impressive that many refugees participate in this action. As organizer Cornelia, told of the initiative "Welcome to Wermelskirchen", have about 20 refugees from Syria, Albania, Serbia, Eritrea and Iraq helped make Wermelskirchen clean. And they have a lot of fun, as Cornelia observed.
The approximately 600 workers in safety clothing gathered Saturday 40 cubic meters of waste, reports Bernd White. Curiosity finds remain from this year, but there is a lot of small garbage found, such as tires, vacuum cleaner, electrical appliances, plastic parts and even a canister used oil and many still partially full glass bottles. On Friday already had around 350 pupils of primary schools Tente, Swan School and Catholic. Elementary school St. Michael and two classes of the School gathered in their environment garbage.
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