On Saturday, January 13, about 30 members of Boy Scout Troop 1 and Pack 1 joined up with volunteers from the Friends of Tide to Town for a trail cleanup along Wheaton Street. The volunteers picked up about 50 pounds of trash along Wheaton Street, near A.B. Williams Elementary School.

Dana Bynum, Den Leader, says, “Cleanup events like this with Tide to Town are a vital and visible way the scouts put their pledge to support their community into action. We have partnered with Tide to Town for another event in the past, and we look forward to continuing that momentum for years to come. Today, we collected about 20 bags of trash along Wheaton Street.”

“It’s so important to the Friends of Tide to Town organization to keep our sidewalks, biking lanes, walking paths, and community clean and beautiful. We were extremely excited to collaborate with the Boy Scouts of America and see our youth so committed to doing good work in our neighborhoods," said Armand Turner, Deputy Director of Healthy Savannah, Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health and the Chair of Friends of Tide to Town.

By keeping the Tide to Town clean, event organizers are hoping their efforts will encourage those who commute to work and school – via foot or bike – to use the trail more often and that all who live in the area will use the trail for healthy leisure activities.

TIDE TO TOWN
Tide To Town, Savannah’s Urban Trail System, will be a protected network of walking and bicycling trails connecting all of Savannah’s neighborhoods, from the heart of the city to its marshes and waterways, eventually integrating with long distance walking and bicycling trails like the East Coast Greenway. Parts of the trail network are already completed and in use including sections along Wheaton Street and sections of the Truman Linear Park Trail connecting Lake Mayer to Daffin Park. The Tide to Town trail system is supported by a network of local partners that include the YMCA of Coastal Georgia and Healthy Savannah as administrators of the Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://tidetotown.org/