As Commissioner Patti Garrett mentioned at the end of the Decatur City Commission meeting last night, Spring Neighborhood Clean-Up Days start this weekend.  Oakhurst you are up first, so call up your neighbors to get that giant, defunct attic fan to the curb!

No liquids, dirt, bricks, blocks, stone, rocks, concrete or motor vehicle batteries/parts!

Basically everything else is fair game.

More info in the PDF HERE.

From the City of Decatur website…

2012 Neighborhood Cleanup Days Announced

When: Saturdays in April, May and June, 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

All items to be collected should be placed on the curb no later than 7:30 a.m.

What: yard trimmings, building materials (that are not from the work of private contractors), tires, appliances (not containing Freon), and trash that would not normally be placed in pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) bags.

Liquids, dirt, bricks, blocks, stone, rocks, concrete, and motor vehicle batteries or parts will not be collected.

Oakhurst Neighborhood #1 – April 7, 2012

• Maxwell Street
• Third Avenue (Eastlake to Northern)
• Oakview Road (East Lake Drive to Second Avenue, south side from Second Avenue to 1736 Oakview Road)
• Second Avenue (East Lake to Northern)
• Fourth Avenue
• North Fourth Avenue
• Fifth Avenue (Oakview to Northern)
• Gordon Street
• Northern Avenue (north side only)
• First Avenue

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Just a Sunday morning FYI – I’ve added all of Decatur’s “Neighborhood Clean Up”/Trash Amnesty Days – with all the applicable streets – to the Featured Events Calendar as a friendly reminder for all you purge-minded folks.

Oakhurst is up first with four straight Saturdays starting on April 3rd.  Lenox Place wraps things up on Saturday, June 19th.

Don’t be fooled by the new name!  Trash Amnesty Day for your Decatur neighborhood is right around the corner!  (And by “around the corner” I mean April, May or June.)

Catherine over at the Decatur Minute primed the masses with a post yesterday, which launches Decatur residents from Midway to Westchester into a trash-gathering frenzy, anticipating the exciting Saturday to come.  Anything from “yard trimmings, building materials (that are not from the work of private contractors), tires, appliances (not containing Freon), and trash that would not normally be placed in pay-as-you-throw bags” will be collected.

However, don’t get TOO carried away BECAUSE…

Liquids, dirt, bricks, blocks, stone, rocks, concrete and motor vehicle batteries or parts will not be collected.

When will your neighborhood celebrate this most wonderous of holidays??  Open this PDF, sent out by Public Works, to find out!

(P.S.  I’ll be adding all the neighborhood dates to the “Featured Events Calendar” in case anyone forgets to collect up all those errant tires before the big day.)

Note: the picture above was not taken in the City of Decatur and merely serves as a pictorial reference to those unfamiliar with “trash”.

The Trash Amnesty parade circled our neighborhood this morning, hauling our over-sized detritus off the curb and into their trucks.

Aside from being continually impressed by these city employees’ ability to lift things well beyond my own limits, I quite enjoyed their general demeanor; always in complete control of what they’re doing, but having a good time.  Ah, the happy symptoms of a well-functioning governing body.

See y’all next year!  I’ve already thought of some items I accidently left in the basement.