There’s a lot less trash lining Columbia Pike after a couple dozen volunteers took part in an Annandale Cleanup on April 12.
The cleanup was sponsored by the Annandale Rotary Club and the Annandale-Mason Roundtable, the organization that hosts the Taste of Annandale. Clean Fairfax provided bags and gloves.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 150 and some of their parents, kids from the Broyhill Crest Recreation Club’s Barracudas swim team, members of the Annandale Rotary Club, Del. Vivian Watts, and other local residents joined the cleanup crew.
They collected trash around the site of the demolished buildings at 7123 Columbia Pike, behind the Mando Kimbob restaurant and Bessie’s Pet Grooming, and up and down the street.
They filled dozens of trash bags with soda cans, takeout boxes, car parts, liquor bottles, cigarette butts, and assorted litter.
“It’s really important that we help out in our community,” said cleanup organizer Joe Do, president of the Annandale Rotary Club and co-president of the Annandale-Mason Roundtable.
Do says, the owner of the property at 7123 Columbia Pike, where the remains of three buildings destroyed in a fire were torn down in 2023 and two others remain boarded up, “live out of town and don’t care about Annandale. But we do, and we’re making a difference in our neighborhood.”
Then, on April 16, the Annandale-Mason Roundtable and Annandale Rotary Club held a successful Taste of Annandale Happy Hour at the Cue Club Café. The event offered a networking opportunity for Taste of Annandale sponsors, vendors, and community members.
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