Chillicothe — Volunteer labor has cleaned up an abandoned homeless camp and parking lot trash off Bridge Street recently, after controversy over the homeless in Chillicothe Council.
On Mother’s Day, Amy Fitton delivered on her offer to coordinate a cleanup of homeless camps around Chillicothe. Along with Joe Letsche, who has started a nonprofit “Clean the Streams Southern Ohio,” she says they almost completely cleaned up Goldie Gunlock Park, a wetland park near Wal-Mart beside the Bridge Street bridge.
(Along with being a homeless volunteer, Fitton coordinates the annual Scioto riverside cleanup on the morning of the Earth Gathering, and is a naturalist at Tar Hollow State Park – and Letsche is the former director of the Ross County Park District.)
After seeing posts about the cleanup plans and its result on Facebook, I caught Fitton after Monday’s Chillicothe Council session. Hear her explanation of the effort, its success, plans for more, and her feelings on treatment of the homeless, in the below video.
Fitton says she plans to have her next cleanup on the morning of Memorial Day for the hillside behind Lincoln Park, on the side of Grandview Cemetery.
Find photos in the video in the “Clean the Streams Southern Ohio” Facebook page.
