Cheney’s 12th Clean Sweep is just nine days away, and as usual, there are some changes and additions to the annual city beautification day.
One of those changes is the location of the dumpster drop-off point. Originally starting with two locations, the dumpster drop off point fell to a single location at Amazing Grace Fellowship Church in recent years.
This year, there will still be one location, but it will be at the city’s Utility Building, 112 Anderson Road. Cheney GIS technician and Clean Sweep coordinator Sue Beeman said the change is more efficient for the city since at the end of the day the collect waste can be locked up and delivered to the county’s West to Energy plant at a more convenient time rather than that day.
Dumpster hours are 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., with proof of residency required to drop off items such as household garbage, construction materials and metals.
Amazing Grace will still play a role in this year’s Clean Sweep as the church at 416 Betz Road will host a new feature: an electronics recycling point provided by the non-profit organization The Artisans. According to information from the city, The Artisans has been in Spokane since 1987, and serves as an organization “providing services necessary for individual job development, employment support and employment opportunities in the community for persons with disabilities.”
Items accepted for free include cellphones, communications equipment, DVD and VCR players, small household appliances and miscellaneous electronics. There is a small cost for recycling old tube-style TVs.
“It’s still pretty nominal,” Beeman said.
Drop off hours for electronic recycling is 9 a.m. – noon.
Another new feature is a prescription drug take-back program from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at CHAS Clinic, 1720 2nd St. Beeman said Cheney police Sgt. Nate Conley informed the city about the program, which is also hosted by Education Service District 101 and is taking place separately from Clean Sweep.
Beeman said they contacted ESD101 and asked if they would like to be included in the Clean Sweep program, and they said they would.
“We kind of folded their event into ours,” she added.
A number of traditional recycling and cleanup offerings are back this year. Les Schwab is providing an old tire and battery drop-off point again from 9 a.m. – noon, having collected 110 tires during 2018’s Clean Sweep.
Cheney Federal Credit Union is again hosting a free shredding service, allowing the equivalent of three paper grocery bags per person of personal documents to be brought in for destruction. The credit union is also accepting donations to the Cheney Food Bank.
Last year, 39 64-gallon bins of personal documents were shredded, and 507 pounds of food collected.
Household hazardous waste is again being accepted at the Cheney Recycling Center, 100 Anderson Road. This includes paints, oils and solvents not typically accepted at the center.
Finally, volunteers will again be fanning out from Veterans Park across the city to pick up litter from public areas in Cheney. Beeman said they are anticipating about 270 volunteers this year, 50 more than last year.
As part of that effort, Cheney residents can nominate an elderly or disabled neighbor, friend or family member for free yard cleaning. Beeman said volunteers from the two Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints wards in the city have agreed to perform the work. Preference will be given to owner-occupied homes in the city limits, with nominations made by calling Conley at 498-9334 or email at nconley@cityofcheney.org.
“If you know of somebody who is unable to do their own yardwork, give us a holler,” Beeman said.
More information on Clean Sweep is available at http://www.cityofcheney.org/266/Cheney-Clean-Sweep or by calling (509) 498-9240.
John McCallum can be reached at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com.
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