Cleaning up Edenvale

Keeping Edenvale clean and looking after it is essential for Edenvale town to grow and improve.

Two locally based community initiatives are hoping to do this.

Friends of Horwood.

The Friends of Horwood group maintains the Horwood’s Farm grounds, in which the only officially recognised heritage site in Edenvale is situated.

“The actual homestead was built in the early 1900s and is currently owned by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council,” said Mrs Sharon Lendrum-Frittelli, one of the founders.

The Friends of Horwood’s Farm initiative was started by two community members in 2009, when the homestead and grounds started to deteriorate due to lack of ongoing maintenance.

The group meets the second Saturday of every month at the farm parking area in Homestead Road, Edenvale. The group works between 9am to 12-noon, when a designated area is cleaned and maintained. This project is suitable for people of all ages.

•  Recommended clothing includes old clothes, hats, closed shoes and gloves. Pinafores with the wording ‘Friends of Horwood’ are handed to every volunteer for easy recognition.
•  Take tools such as rakes, brooms, spades and garden shears.
•  It is advisable to take a bottle of water, although cold drinks and hot drinks are freely available. Hot dogs, boerewors rolls and bacon or cheese rolls are given to all volunteers at the end of the clean up.
•  An adult waits until every volunteer is collected by 12.15pm.
•  All students are supplied with a Certificate of Community Participation on completion.

Poster Busters.

Poster Busters is a community project that started in 2011 as a result of the increasing amount of illegal signs being placed on street poles, traffic signs, electrical boxes and suburban directional boards.

The group meets the third Saturday afternoon of the month in the Horwood’s Farm parking area along Homestead Road, Edenvale, at 2pm. Each team consists of an adult driver. One or more passengers are given a directional route to remove all illegal signage, which is placed in the boot. Everyone meets back at the parking area at 3.50pm, when the posters are sorted.

“Larger companies can be fined for non-adherence to the Outdoor Advertising Policy and the balance of signage is discarded,” said Mrs Lendrum-Frittelli. This project is especially enjoyed by teenagers and is suitable for high school students.

•  Recommended clothing includes jeans and t-shirts, hats and gloves. Pinafores with the wording ‘Poster Busters’ are handed to every volunteer for easy recognition.
•  Take tools such as side cutters, pliers or tullen cutters.
•  It is advisable to take a bottle of water along.
•  An adult waits until every volunteer is collected after the clean up.
•  All students are supplied with a Certificate of Community Participation on completion.

For more information, contact Mrs Sharon Lendrum-Frittelli on 082 6060 906 or send an email to shaze@iafrica.com