Community Group ‘Trash Bashers’ Cleans Up East Baltimore Neighborhood, Looking For More Employees & Volunteers

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — If you’re driving astir York Road and Woodbourne Avenue, you mightiness conscionable announcement a radical picking up trash.

A member, Lance Bendann, said their tiny radical has made an interaction and a difference.

Bendann is simply a subordinate of what’s travel to beryllium a treasured assemblage radical called the Trash Bashers. It started with Bendann and a fewer different volunteers from St. Mary’s Church successful the neighborhood.

And then, they recovered Lynee Lamoree.

“She was conscionable retired independently picking up trash herself,” said Bendann.

And Lamoree thought of a mode to get adjacent much Trash Bashers.

“A enactment grooming opportunity,” Lamoree said, that progressive wherever she works, The League For People With Disabilities, Inc. “They get paid to travel and cleanable up doubly a week.”

They’re paid done a concern with St. Mary’s Church and Loyola University, on with assistance from Councilman Mark Conway.

And the vicinity is noticing the change. Jamil Khaware, who owns the Family Food Market, said he’s a large fan.

Once trash littered his store entrance, “you spot the garbage determination and you don’t wanna travel here,” helium added.

But now, nary much trash.

Lamoree said the merchants admit the cleanup and the caller Trash Bashers from The League larn enactment skills and gain a salary. It’s a win-win situation, she said.

They’re looking for much employees and communities who mightiness privation to get involved.

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To inquire, interaction Lynne Lamoree astatine The League For People With Disabilities, Inc. astatine 410-323-0500 oregon sojourn their website.