Downtown Carson City business owners stepped out and left there businesses in the trusted hands of their staff members on Saturday, hitting the streets armed with brooms, dust pans, shovels, trash bags and even pocket scrapers in a group effort to clean the street.
Rutledge Law, Horseshoe Club, Comma Coffee, Yoga Sol, Carson Jewelry and Loan and others were seen up and down Carson Street most of the day getting smile after smile from pedestrians walking by as they would stop and chat giving well wishes and great work comments as drivers drove by waved and honked showing support of their efforts.
As the day progressed you could see the trash bags fill and accumulate on the street corners with debris that accumulates even though city staff aggresively does what they can with limited budgets.
There is clean and then there is "Pride Clean" and that is the feel you got with the energy fronted to get down and dirty and really look in the small crevices and corners looking for whatever they could do to make this piece of our city more enjoyable. Even on hands and knees scraping gum from the sidewalk was not beyond the reach of this group.
Downtown Carson is already a great place to Dine - Shop - Congregate and Enjoy, but if we set our goals high and work with the city and community would it not be nice some day to be noted as "One of the Cleanest Cities in America" was even over heard spoken by one handling a broom.