{"id":157412,"date":"2026-04-04T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:11:07","slug":"100-volunteers-clear-trash-off-lincoln-drive-in-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157412\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ volunteers clear trash off Lincoln Drive in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; It was a rare sight in Philadelphia as Lincoln Drive closed to vehicles and opened to volunteers for an hours-long clean-up campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The spring cleaning event was just one of many held by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/fow.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of the Wissahickon<\/a>, an organization that has cared for Wissahickon Valley Park for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Participants pulled car bumpers, tire rims, soda cans, and even electronics out of the streets and vegetation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Litter that collects on this winding road can end up in an important source of drinking water in Philadelphia: the Wissahickon Watershed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Organizers hope that drivers take notice of their hard work and think twice about littering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another clean-up event will take place on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/fow.org\/event\/earth-day-bells-mill-clean-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Bells Mill Road.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone interested in getting involved with the Friends of the Wissahickon can visit their website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/center-city-sidewalk-sweepers-have-kept-philadelphia-clean-decades\/18823425\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Center City Sidewalk Sweepers have kept Philadelphia clean for over three decades<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center City District has been supporting Philadelphia for the last 35 years, and there for just as long, were Sherron, Ed, and Tom.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; It was a rare sight in Philadelphia as Lincoln Drive closed to vehicles and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20128,67611,64249,71316,28208,69,71,70,2404],"class_list":{"0":"post-157412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-clean-up","9":"tag-earth-day","10":"tag-earth-month","11":"tag-friends-of-the-wissahickon","12":"tag-lincoln-drive","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-volunteer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}