Community Clean-Up expands through partnerships
Chariton’s annual Community Clean-Up effort expanded in 2008 to help deal with the aftermath of the devastating ice storm of 2007. The City of Chariton, working with the Chariton Community Schools, the Chariton Chamber and Development Corporation, the Chariton Rotary Club, the Boy Scouts and other community groups, organized additonal clean up days at city parks, the city cemetery and Red Haw State Park. Students provided the volunteer labor to help clear these areas of limbs, branches and other debris left by the storm, and also helped clear the yards of residents who were physically unable to move their limbs and branches to the curb. This activity culminated with the city-wide Clean Up Day on May 7, when students and Rotary Club volunteers picked up trash throughout the city and provided a dump site where residents could bring household waste, old appliances, electronics and tires for disposal.