
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 16, 1994                   TAG: 9404180125
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-7   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By RICK LINDQUIST STAFF WRITER RADFORD
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

CANDIDATE JOINS CITYWIDE CLEANUP

If you're driving over Memorial Bridge this morning around 8:30, don't be surprised to see City Councilman Dave Worrell wielding a pushbroom on the pedestrian walkway. "I intend to be out there with my bib overalls on," Worrell promised Friday.

The councilman will be among the hundreds expected to turn out today between 8:30 a.m. and noon for the city's second annual Cleanin' and Greenin' effort.

After remarking about the littered condition of the sidewalks on the bridge plaza at Monday's City Council meeting, Worrell - who's running for mayor against incumbent Tom Starnes - agreed to borrow a broom from the city's public works department to do his bit.

Gayle Carr, the city's solid waste supervisor, said the citywide cleanup will focus on Park Road, West Street, Riverview Park and the boat ramp; the Bisset Park jogging trail and roadway; and around Fifth and Seventh streets near Pendleton. Adopt-a-Spot groups also will be out in force.

The city will provide the 10 or so cleanup groups and dozens of Radford University fraternity and sorority volunteers with plastic bags. Recyclable materials will be bagged separately.

Carr said two city trucks will make the rounds to collect the bags during the day.

Storm debris still may get in the way in some areas, Carr said, but he's hoping the city's volunteers can top last year's trash collection.

"If [people] could find their way to the landfill instead of the side of the road, it sure would help," he added.

Meanwhile, Worrell - who's probably one of the city's best-dressed officials - said his bib overalls could become a more common sight in the city if he's elected mayor. "If I'm successful in my race for mayor, i just might wear 'em to a council meeting," he said. Without the broom, of course.

by CNB