About 100 volunteers picked up garbage and cleaned up neighbourhoods
Downtown Windsor received some love on Friday.
About 100 volunteers from several community organizations helped to clean-up the city core as part of PITCH-IN week.
Tim Hortons and PITCH-IN Canada have partnered for the past four years to promote the event.
Crews are armed with garbage bags, gloves and brooms and spent the day making downtown neighbourhoods look a little better.
"We have to lift ourselves up and that's a whole reason why we are doing downtown Windsor," says downtown Windsor Tim Hortons owner Vicky Smith. "We are lifting each other up. We live down here and we work down here, we love our downtown."
Other PITCH-IN events took place this week and Smith says there have been some interesting finds including a vacuum cleaner, tires and unfortunately, needles.
Cassia Hebert, a teacher at the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board joined in the day and says it's about the students who go to school downtown.
"We have schools in this area that we are going to clean up and it is very important for us that our kids have a safe neighbourhood to play in and to enjoy with the nice spring weather coming we need the environment to be clean for them."
PITCH-IN week began in 1967 along Vancouver Island.