Downtown Clean Sweep Program

Meet our newest Program Foreperson, Tace! Tace is running our summer Galt Gardens crew - a crew that focuses on cleaning Galt Gardens several times a day. 🌳

Tace loves the outdoors, working out, and being a part of our community! Read all about Tace:
🔗 https://downtownlethbridge.com/content-detail.asp?ID=279&CatID=3

Check out some of the amazing work our Clean Sweep Workers have done recently! Make sure you take a second to say "thanks" if you see them around! 🙌

If you have graffiti you would like to report, head over to
downtownlethbridge.com/graffiti

Meet our newest Clean Sweep Foreman Rob Lippa! A warm welcome to Rob as he joins our team with the goal creating safe and inviting spaces for the community. Rob has a passion for helping people and a keen interest in addiction treatment, therapy, and counselling.
🔗Read more about Rob on our website at https://www.downtownlethbridge.com/sub-detail.asp?ID=279&SubID=161

Here's a little reminder of what services we provide here at Clean Sweep! 🦺

Call or text us at (403) 332-0722, and our cleanup crews will help you out!

Khrystian from McMan Lethbridge visited the CSP office this morning to provide training on narcan and safe needle pick up.

Training for crew members is an integral part of our program. We want to ensure our crew members know how to safely do their tasks while also providing them with new skills and education.

With a change in the weather, the CSP staff are looking forward to tackling the graffiti in the Downtown area. Check out the before and after pics from a job done last month-

Downtown businesses can report graffiti for removal online:
🔗 downtownlethbridge.com/graffiti

Thank you to Rachel Thomas, MP and her office for their generous donation of sweets for our Clean Sweepers! They will be well enjoyed! 🥰

Merry Christmas!

Thank you to Lamont Law for their incredibly generous donation of Tim Hortons gift cards for each of the crew members! They will be super happy to receive this sweet treat!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you Nakagama's Japanese Food & Giftware for your wonderful donation of warm socks and scarves! Our CSP crews will be so happy to stay warm this winter. We appreciate your thoughtfulness and contribution to our gifts!

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Thank you to Pita Pit! The crews will love your gift certificate donation and we know they will love to try something delicious from your restaurant! We appreciate your help in making this Christmas a merry one for our CSP crew members!

Merry Christmas! 💗

Thank you to the Real Canadian Superstore for the donation to our CSP party! The crew members work hard 7 days a week to keep our city clean & tidy so we greatly appreciate their help in giving back to our crews.

Merry Christmas! 💗

Thank you to Intrigue Lingerie Boutique and Infinitea_yql for the amazing donation of gift certificates to our crew members! We are sure they will enjoy this special treat 🧋

Merry Christmas! 💗

Thank you to Integrity Dental for their generous donation to our CSP crew member Christmas party! Thanks to Integrity Dental we will be able to provide our CSP workers with an extra delicious dinner for all the hard work they do in our downtown! 💗

Thank you & Merry Christmas! 🎄

We are so thankful for Mountain Warehouse Canada and their donation to the CSP crew members! They have generously donated warm winter accessories so our CSP workers will stay nice and warm while keeping the streets of downtown clean all winter long for our community to enjoy! 🧦🧤

Thank you & Merry Christmas! 💗

Thank you to Games Galore and the Billiard Store for their generous donation to the Clean Sweep Program Christmas Party! 🎄

Our CSP Crew members work hard all year round to keep downtown clean and we are thankful for great community members, like Games Galore, for helping us give back to our crew members.

Thank you & Merry Christmas! 💗

We love our partnership with Canadian Tire!

The Clean Sweep teams take care of our entire community helping to clean up abandoned messes like this one! They will clean up the debris, safely pick up needles or pipes, and leave the area looking brand new.

☎️ Find a mess? Call 311 to report.

What should you do if you find a needle in Lethbridge?
1️⃣ Don't touch it!
2️⃣ Call or text the Needle Debris Hotline (403-332-0722) - Be sure to include specific details about the location
3️⃣ A CSP Foreman will attend the scene to safely remove the needle and dispose of it properly

The Clean Sweepers work 7 days a week to keep downtown Lethbridge sparkling! They work varying shifts from 6am to 1pm and help by picking up garbage, sweeping up leaves, and with snow removal of specific areas.

Every Clean Sweeper goes through an hour-long training session before they begin. Training includes how to properly pick up needles, lifting and bending, safety, and route training. 🦺

We are working extremely hard to remove graffiti from the downtown this summer!
Last year, we removed 90 graffiti tags throughout the entire year. As of July 15, 2023, we have removed over 180 tags to date.
Report a downtown graffiti online: downtownlethbridge.com/graffiti

Our Clean Sweep Program (CSP) assists other organizations in the Downtown and Lethbridge area by cleaning up messes (as seen in the picture) that have been left behind. A coordinated response starts with a call to the Safe Community Call Center or Lethbridge Police, who asses the scene. Then we come in and take away unclaimed debris.

☎️ Safe Community Call Center: 825-399-7233

Last week, gravel was thrown all over the sidewalk at the TD bank building on 4 Avenue South. CSP was dispatched and the sweepers took care of the scene🤩CSP is always ready to jump into action to keep the Downtown looking great

It's almost that time of the year when you will see the Clean Sweep teams sweeping out the gutters where the city sweepers could not reach. Keep your eyes open and look for the high visibility vests. Let's keep our sweepers safe.

Did you know that we maintain the Festival Square ice rink? Every morning the crews inspect the surface and will resurface it with a resurfacing tool and shovel the ice as needed. ⛸❄️

Check if the rink is open ➡ downtownlethbridge.com/outdooricerink

The Downtown Clean Sweep Program spends 2 hours a day cleaning and maintaining downtown. This includes everything from cleaning up litter and debris, clearing sidewalks and curbs, removing graffiti, and basic landscaping duties like watering flowerbeds. 👷🌸🪣

You will find them out in the downtown core 7 days a week ensuring a clean, beautiful, and vibrant downtown for our community to enjoy!

The Clean Sweep Program helps with shoveling snow in the winter! Particularly they focus on areas such as parking kiosks, crosswalks, alleyway entries, and handicapped parking stalls. ❄️

Business owners are responsible for clearing the sidewalks adjacent to their businesses.

The crews often complete their tasks before many people get to work. But on extra cold days, they take a snow day to protect members from cold-related injuries.

The Clean Sweep Program had its annual Christmas Party for the crew members this week planned by Manager Scott and Foreman Jett! This included dinner, snacks, and gifts!

The gifts were provided by a group of 15 local downtown businesses who wanted to give a token of their appreciation to the crews! Inside were gift cards, cookies, socks, and more. Thank you to everyone who contributed to helping give the CSP crew members a very merry Christmas gift 🎅🎁🥰

Our CSP Program runs a few different programs including the Needle Debris Hotline!

If you find a needle or drug debris out in the community (not just in downtown), you can call the Needle Debris Hotline and one of our trained Forepersons will attend to the needle or debris and remove it. Remember to provide detailed information on where the debris is located.

☎ 403-332-0722

The Downtown Clean Sweep Program is a low-barrier program! What does that mean? We try to minimize potential reasons why someone would not be able to join the program. We supply everything someone needs to do the work, no resume is required, there is no formal application process, and we provide all training.

Participants can also come and go as they need. They can return the next day, no questions asked. This aspect supports those needing to attend therapies or rehabilitation - participants are welcome to return at any time!