Volunteers Get Dirty To Keep South Cobb Clean

About 50 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got down to work in Mableton's on Saturday morning as part of Keep Cobb Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.

Keep Cobb Beautiful was one of the 10 top-performing affiliates chosen by Keep America Beautiful to host the Great American Cleanup.

Wallace Park was just one of three sites in South Cobb chosen for this annual beautification event. Volunteers also helped revitalize Six Flags Drive and Mitchell Lane in Austell.

Several students from , and Campbell High joined in for the Saturday event.

Bejie Herrin, a board member for KCB and an environmental technology instructor at Chattahoochee Technical College, was on hand to organize volunteers and oversee the Wallace Park cleanup site.

"Just seeing all our young people that were involved, it was great," Herrin told South Cobb Patch.

For Herrin and the other volunteers, a dedication to maintaining the community's resources is imperative.

"This is where we live," Herrin said. "It's our responsibility to keep it pretty and to keep it clean so we can all enjoy it, so our children can enjoy it."

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