SI Riverside – Saturday of Service

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Clean Up Australia Day is more than just an opportunity to get their hands dirty for local members of Soroptimist International of Riverside. For them, the event coincides with their annual Saturday Of Service (SOS).

In recent years members of Soroptimist International of Riverside have also helped with the Canning River Restoration Project and the restoration of a garden bench at Murdoch Hospice.

President Jan Olivieri said members choose to support Clean Up Australia Day because “we live near the Canning River, we conduct a lot of functions in this area and it seems like a good idea to keep our part of the river foreshore clean”

Seven members gathered at Riverton Drive East, Shelley and collected 11 bags of rubbish over an area of about one square kilometre. This was an improvement on last year when 17 bags of rubbish were collected, so the members were very happy to see the area being kept clean. Members were however concerned about the amount of drug paraphernalia found in one area.

The locals enjoying the foreshore were quite pleased to see the clean up effort, with one resident even winding down his window to yell ‘thank you’ at the Soroptimists picking up rubbish by the river.

Afterwards the ladies went to a new nearby café for coffee and admired the beautiful Canning River, feeling very pleased to have contributed to its health for a morning.