Greens Bayou Is Now Greener

On the beautiful, crisp fall morning of November 6th more than 70 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Rotarians and community volunteers went to work on Greens Bayou beginning at Cutten Road to Bammel North Houston in our West Reach area. Trees and shrubs donated by the Harris County Flood Control District were planted by scouts under the supervision of volunteers from Trees For Houston while everyone else grabbed gloves and trash bags to pick up debris before it could move further down stream. Over 20 very heavy bags of trash and even a love seat and sofa were hauled out of the bayou!!

There are many people to thank for making this part of Greens Bayou a bit “greener” and we have to start with our event chair and board member, Mike Castro, City Manager of Jersey Village. We also were treated to a wonderful breakfast donated by Dave Crume, manager of the Willowbrook Sweet Tomatoes. Willowbrook Rotary came out for the second time to help us clean along with volunteers representing Green Team America. Cutten Green HOA allowed us space to store trees. Treena Dockery, of The Greenspoint District, did a splendid job checking everyone in and keeping us organized. And a big “thank you” to KBR for providing seed money for our bayou clean up efforts. The saying that “many hands make light work” was very appropriate.

It was truly a community effort in every sense and we eagerly look forward to our next green gathering!

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