Board needs a little help
Vote to help secure $5K grant; Spring Cleanup day is Monday
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Ansley Barker, with the Historic Downtown Clinton Youth Advisory Board, addresses Clinton City Council during Monday night’s meeting. - Ken Leinart
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Anderson County Commissioners Denise Palmer and Michael Foster stopped by Clinton City Council’s Monday night meeting. - Ken Leinart
Historic Downtown Clinton Youth Advisory Board is asking for your vote.
Monday night the group — consisting of Clinton students — spoke to Clinton City Council and gave an update on what they are doing.
And they’re doing quite a bit.
The Youth Advisory Board has completed a video showing why Clinton should be awarded a $5,000 grant for planting cherry trees in the downtown Clinton area.
Anlsey Barker, speaking on behalf of the Youth Board, said the youths’ goal is to “leave a legacy on our unique small town for our future generations.”
To vote for Clinton, go to the actprep.com Club Madness website, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link for Clinton Historic Downtown Youth Board and like it on Facebook.
The Youth Board is also working on a podcast, the first of which will be about the Rev. Paul Turner.
Another task the Youth Board is undertaking is working on a map/trail of the historic markers in the city of Clinton.
Historic Downtown Clinton Chairperson Katherine Birkbeck said “Tasty Tuesdays” started again Tuesday, March 28, and will run for four weeks.
She also said Historic Downtown Clinton is preparing for the April 22 Mosaic Arts Festival that will showcase “kids from Anderson County and Clinton City schools.”
The city of Clinton Public Works Department announced Spring Cleanup Day will be held this year on Monday April 3 (an annual event on the first Monday in April).
Public Works crews will be collecting items that normally are not collected during household garbage pickup, and taking them to the Chestnut Ridge Landfill (residential only, no commercial items collected — though the city will pick up as many as four tires).
Residents should place refuse and rubbish items beside the street, ensuring that nothing protrudes into the street or obstructs sidewalks, utility poles, water meters, fire hydrants, or mailboxes.
Items for collection must be at the curb by 7 a.m. Monday, April 3.
Also Monday night, the Clinton Fire Department was recognized for being awarded a FEMA fire prevention grant worth $16,619. The city will kick in an additional $830 in matching funds.
Those funds will be used for smoke detectors and alarms to be given to households within the city.
It may take a while, though, before the smoke detectors and alarms are ready to give to residents.
“We have to go through FEMA,” Clinton Fire Department’s Jeff Little said.