Medford’s Volunteers Transform City Parks and Cemetery with Massive 1,400-Pound Trash Cleanup Effort

MEDFORD, Ore. — Twenty-seven Medford citizens spent over 140 hours cleaning up City parks and Eastwood Cemetery in March. The volunteers removed almost 1,400 pounds of trash and natural debris.

Medford’s Parks, Recreation and Facilities’ Volunteer Coordinator Tyson Thompson organized cleanups in these parks:

• Donahue-Frohnmayer Park: 200 pounds of trash and debris removed, as well as sleeping bags, mats, and other items from an abandoned camp. The woodchip area under the play structures was also raked and leveled.
• Hawthorne Park: 80 pounds of trash removed and graffiti cleaned off various surfaces. The outdoor gym was power-washed.
• Jackson Park: 200 pounds of trash and natural debris were removed, and graffiti was cleaned off park structures.
• Pear Blossom Park: Cleaning picnic tables, trash can lids, and 80 pounds of trash removed from nearby business parking lots, including the parking garage.
• Veterans Park: 120 pounds of trash, including two shopping carts, was removed. Volunteers power-washed markers near the South Pacific Highway and cleaned graffiti off several memorials.
• Eastwood Cemetery: 700 pounds of debris left by the historic February snowstorm cleared, and volunteers cleaned several headstones.

To get involved, volunteer for park and neighborhood cleanup opportunities on this website link.