The 51st Annual Rapid City Community Clean-up Week is scheduled for April 18-23. Community members are able to take advantage of fees being waived at the Rapid City Landfill Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Want to go the extra mile and do your part to beautify the community? Get together with a group of friends or colleagues and participate in the annual community clean-up Day, set for Saturday, April 23.

Community Clean-up Day includes hundreds of volunteers armed with plastic bags combing through parks, along ditches, drainage areas, fence lines, and neighborhoods in the community picking up trash. The City will provide trash bags. If your business, organization or group of friends are interested in signing up, email Ria.Harper@rcgov.org. Ria will be able to assign a location for clean-up.

While the "official" Clean-Up Day is April 23, your group can choose a dedicated day that week to get out and collect trash at your assigned location. Once complete, leave it curb-side and the collection team will come and pick it up for disposal.

"This is a great way to help clean up our community," said Ria Harper City Solid Waste outreach coordinator. "It's a great community service project for groups, especially youth groups and teams, as well as getting groups and teams from businesses together to spend a few hours during the week or on a Saturday morning cleaning up an area of town."

For more information about Cleanup Week, contact the Rapid City Solid Waste Division at 355-3496 or click here.