Hundreds come together to clean up Milwaukee’s north side for Earth Day [Video]

Milwaukee residents came together to tidy up the northside on Earth Day.

Frankie Thomas has been living in the Harambee neighborhood for 50 years.

“Last year it was raining and snowing, and I still came out here,” he says.

TMJ’s Gideon Verdin asked why this kind of work is important to him.

“Because nobody else is going to do it!” Thomas replied.

Hundreds of volunteers met up open MLK Drive to roll up their sleeves and clean up the city streets.

“Everbody will get their own bucket, picker and garbage bag and clean up their neighborhood, winter or summer, so this will be a continuous situation,” Freda Wright, a long time volunteer, says.

Wright helped the elderly volunteers in the area clean up Clinton Rose park. Mary, 73, says her disability won’t stop her …