Remington Awarded Clean Community Award

The Remington neighborhood was one of four first place winners, out of 71 competing communities, in the mayor's Clean Communities Competition.

The winners were announced Sunday after a six month competition the kicked off with the mayor's Spring Clean Up, according to a news release from the Department of Public Works.

The first place neighborhoods, one for each of the four city quadrants, received $5,000 and each of the four second place communities received $1,000 from Wheelabrator Technologies. 

The communities were judge on criteria such as reduction in alley clean requests, increase in residents using trashcans with lids and increase in recycling.

NE Quadrant:  1st Place:  Greater Greenmount Community Association, Inc.

                        2nd Place:  Chinquapin Park Improvement Association, Inc.

NW Quadrant: 1st Place:  Greater Remington Improvement Association

                        2nd Place:  Reservoir Hill Improvement Council