Arvada West

Indian Reservation Benefits From Curbside Cleanup

Jul 14, 2000

It is said that one person?’s trash is another person?’s treasure, which was certainly the case for this year?’s Spring Curbside Cleanup.

City crews who hauled tens of thousands of cubic yards of Arvada residents?’ discards noted a common item in 1999: working bicycles. This year, Arvada Public Works Coordinator Pete Adler, who manages the Curbside Cleanup program, directed the work crews to set aside the working bikes, hoping to redistribute them to people in need. Adler worked
with Community Relations Coordinator Vicky Barron and Ranya Kelly of the Redistribution Warehouse to find a new home for the discarded bikes.

After contacting many organizations throughout the metro area, Kelly was unable to find any takers. Undeterred, she began calling contacts from out of state, and found a very grateful recipient: the Navajo Indian Reservation in Tohatchi, New Mexico.

On Wednesday, April 26, representatives from the Indian Reservation drove to Arvada and picked up nearly 200 bicycles, which were taken back and redistributed to children at the Reservation.