Sussex trustees begin Bug Line clean-up
Seeking volunteers to work five Saturdays this year
Village of Sussex – Three village trustees and other community volunteers are planning a clean-up campaign one Saturday, a month over the five months spanning June through October.
"We have chosen five Saturdays from mid-June to mid-October from 9 a.m. to noon. Each Saturday we will have an area chosen to pick trash, pull weeds, dress up our trails and clean up the creeks," explained Trustee Pat Tetzlaff. "We are very excited that, for our first volunteer day, we will be working on the final portion of the Bug Line Recreational Trail that has not been open in 35 years."
Tetzlaff said she and fellow trustees Steve Batzko and Steve Berger came up with the idea after receiving some citizen complaints about the appearance of some areas within the village.
"We all kind of had the same idea that maybe we could get together with a group of volunteers and help clean up some of the village," Tetzlaff said. "With a lot of budget cuts, and all of the other responsibilities they have, the village staff is busy with other priorities and we thought this was one way we could help out."
Tetzlaff said she hopes scouting, church and other civic groups might chip in.
She said if a sufficient number volunteer, she might create a new civic group, Simply Sussex, which would conduct annual cleanups and work with citizens in the village who have special needs.
Those interested may contact Tetzlaff at (262) 246-3005 or at the village Web site, www.village.sussex.wi.us.
The group will also work on the village's 14 municipal parks and on other, as yet unchosen, projects, if enough people volunteer, she said.
Tetzlaff said Waukesha County officials are expected to open the portion of the Bug Line on the Mammoth Spring cannery site on Main Street off Waukesha Avenue.
The volunteers will be trimming shrubs, raking the trail and pick up litter along the newly opened portion of the path, which begins where it crosses Silver Spring and continues northeast until it crosses Main Street near Waukesha Avenue.
The volunteers will be doing similar work on the portion of the trail that extends southeast from Highway 164 to its intersection with Main Street near the village's western boundary.
The work is scheduled for June 13, July 18, Aug. 8, Sept. 12 and Oct. 10. The dates were chosen because they are near to the beginning and end of the summer and fall seasons, or are the weekends following major events in the village that might generate large amounts of litter that need to be removed, Tetzlaff said.
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