Our wonderful DumpBusters crew leader recently received the Jefferson Award for the volunteer work he's done through Allegheny CleanWays. Thank you, Joe, for all the work you do for us and the City of Pittsburgh. It is an honor to know you!

The Allegheny CleanWays Board of Directors are extremely pleased to announce the promotion of Myrna Newman to the position of Director of Programs. Over the last four years, Myrna's dedication, creativity, and field expertise have fueled this organization's mission of empowering and engaging residents to eliminate illegal dumping and littering in Allegheny County. Along with this change in our infrastructure, Bob McKinley has left his position with Allegheny CleanWays. We thank Bob for his contributions to the organization and wish him well in his future endeavors.

In 2010, our well-known Tireless program celebrated its eighth season of success. Over those 8 years, 1756 Tireless volunteers have removed 117 tons of debris from our three rivers. Tireless Partners include Friends of the Riverfront, Three Rivers Rowing Association, REI, Venture Outdoors, the SCA, the City of Pittsburgh, Nine Mile Run Watershed Association and RiverCubes.

After much hard work and discussion, the Board of Directors made the decision for Allegheny CleanWays to purchase a 1992 Toyota 4WD pickup, fulfilling a long term organizational dream. Board member Jack Rearick contributed many long hours in getting the truck into top condition and ready for hard work.  The truck has already been used actively at the Duck Hollow site and we can tell that it will revolutionize the work we do. In addition to enabling our DumpBuster crew to carry all necessary equipment, it provides a means of transporting large quantities of debris to staging areas. The 4WD capability has proven to be quite useful this winter, allowing our DumpBuster crew to maintain effort on the multi-year cleanup project in Duck Hollow. You can look forward to seeing the truck at all ACW events this year.