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Here’s my final post for the spring cleanup. Yesterday was a great success due to all the volunteers who came out to m...
04/19/2026

Here’s my final post for the spring cleanup. Yesterday was a great success due to all the volunteers who came out to make a difference. Milan is so much cleaner today than it was on Friday.

Thank you to everyone who participated in some form. Special thanks to my special friends who help me organize this event every year.
-Rob Friese for the incredible pork and ribs
-Joe Ringbloom for the donation for food
-Denise Kolar, Traci Cole and Penny LeBlanc for running home base from start to finish
-George Elder for brisket donation
-Matt Tomecek and Marty Ritchie for always managing the biggest groups of volunteers
-Carrie Ritchie for the incredible sweet treats
-Toby Carver and Matt Perales for cleanup Saturday and bag pickup Sunday.
-Newt and Linda Squires for always being our biggest supporters

Sorry if I missed anyone. I’m very appreciative of everyone who comes out to help. Milan’s city council is always well represented. School board and library board also stepped up for the community. Milan’s football team was working hard, as well as our local Cub Scout troop and Easy Riders 4-H club. Milan Crossfit continues to work hard on Carpenter Road and it’s much appreciated.

Overall great community work session that needs to be carried out twice a year. For anyone truly wanting to overachieve, those bags are full of returnable deposit cans and recyclables. Anyone wanting the cans for fundraising are welcome to go through the bags before they enter the dumpster. Denise and I, more than once, have recycled every glass and plastic container picked up and returned hundreds of dollars in deposit cans. It’s a big job, and I’m not ready for this one lol. Who’s next??

Fall cleanup will be here in less than six months, so please consider another Saturday in the near future for supporting your home community of Milan.

Thank you Milan!

04/18/2026

Thank you all for a great day. Weather was a menace, but hard workers won the day. Pics will be posted tomorrow after we pick up the day’s treasures.

04/18/2026

Saturday April 18th. It’s 7:00 AM and we have rain until 11:00 AM. Potentially it might linger until 11:30. Pulled pork, brisket, ribs and mac and cheese are cooking so the party must go on. Pizza also on the menu.
Worst case scenario is we start around 11:30. We’ll keep lunch at 1:00 since we probably will not get as much picked up as on a sunny dry fall day. It happens, so stay the course and we’ll still have a very productive 11:30-1:00 community event.

Thanks again. Wear boots!!

04/16/2026

Hartland cares. Brighton cares. Whitmore Lake cares. While driving home from up north last weekend I was pleasantly surprised to see all the road cleanup work that had happened. These three areas did a massive cleanup on their US 23 highway spaces. Milan has not attempted our own US 23 cleanup, but one day we should.

Spring in Michigan means rain is always a possibility. Saturday, from 11-1, looks like it should be ok. The grass will be wet and the deep ditches will be full. We may not be able to get every area we’d like picked up, but we can all do our best with what Mother Nature has given us.

Sometimes we have to get dirty to make Milan cleaner. Unless the forcast gets considerably worse we plan on meeting and cleaning. Lunch is still privided after the cleanup. No need to register. Please show up to 334 County St around 10:45 and we’ll get organized to send teams out for deployment.

Looking forward to a great day and seeing all of our amazing volunteers.

Ed

Friendly reminder to put April 18th on your calendar. Our spring clean is Saturday April 18 from 11:00 Am to 1:00 PM. ...
03/26/2026

Friendly reminder to put April 18th on your calendar. Our spring clean is Saturday April 18 from 11:00 Am to 1:00 PM. No sign up necessary. Come to 334 County St to meet up with all of our volunteers and you'll be assigned a team and an area, and we go do our thing. Lunch provided at 1:00 after the volunteers return hungry.

Is Milan Cares really necessary? We feel it is. The two pics attached are what can accumulate in 4-5 months in a very small area. A one-mile stretch of Sanford Road, between Plank and Milan-Oakville Road gets abused by a small number of people. A wonderful volunteer (Becky W) and I cleaned this road last October 2025. This is what we've picked up since then. There were the normal water bottles and fast food also, but the liquor bottles were the majority. This unfortunate reality happens all around the perimeter of the City of Milan.

The group, Milan Cares, is the only team out there who attempts to keep Milan as clean as possible. If we didn't, we would look as bad as the State of Ohio in the 1970s. You have to be over 50 to remember how bad Ohio used to look with trash everywhere. Ohio has improved tremendously since the 1970s. If we don't stay vigilant in our community, we WILL live in a trash filled town. Milan Cares wants Milan to be a leader in quality of life, and we work two times a year to make sure our residents live in a clean environment.

Please join our team to keep Milan clean and inviting. Two hours of community service does a lot for the quality of life in the 48160.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDIf you love Milan and hate trash, we'd like to spend a few hours with you. The spring clean for Milan ...
02/19/2026

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

If you love Milan and hate trash, we'd like to spend a few hours with you. The spring clean for Milan Cares is being organized for April 18th, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The snow is melting away, leaving behind all the hidden trash on the sides of our roads and city entrances. We also reach out into York Township, Milan Township, and London Township so this is a true community event.

Volunteers are needed to spread out and clean up what unfortunately gets thrown out of car windows. For ten years we've been keeping Milan the cleanest town in Michigan, but it's a never-ending job. Please consider spending a few hours working as a team for the greater good of the Milan community. After the work session, lunch is provided for all the volunteers at Workhorse Realty, 334 County Street.

Spread the word and join our team as we work together to keep Milan a wonderful and clean community.

Last Milan Cares post of 2025. All the bags and tires were picked up today. Not as much trash as other fall clean ups,...
11/09/2025

Last Milan Cares post of 2025. All the bags and tires were picked up today. Not as much trash as other fall clean ups, and that’s a great thing for Milan.
A few more pics attached of our valued volunteers.

See you again in the spring.

Another great day of community service. Milan is once again the cleanest little town in Michigan. Thank you to all of ...
11/08/2025

Another great day of community service. Milan is once again the cleanest little town in Michigan. Thank you to all of our volunteers. Special thanks to Elder Farms for supplying the best brats we’ve had, Rodger and Traci Cole for incredible brisket chili, and I can’t lie but I make a mean spicy tortellini soup. Ringbloom Electric is a constant financial supporter of this community service. I wish I could give the biggest shout out to our biggest supporter, but they want to stay anonymous. If they’re reading this please know how much we appreciate your support.

Great turnout with local sports teams and youth groups. Milan football, Milan tennis, American Heritage Girls, Boy Scout Pack 3491 and Milan FFA all working to support their team’s fundraising efforts and your community’s health.

Have a great weekend everyone and enjoy our ultra clean entrances to the city of Milan.

11/05/2025

Saturday from noon to 2:00 we’re hosting our Milan fall clean-up. Hope to see a bunch of happy faces. 334 County St is the meetup spot at 11:45 AM.

Our fall cleanup day is approaching soon. Volunteers are needed to spend a couple hours picking up the road trash that ...
10/19/2025

Our fall cleanup day is approaching soon. Volunteers are needed to spend a couple hours picking up the road trash that unfortunately amasses around town throughout the summer. We’re very proud of how clean we keep Milan, so please join us. Everyone is welcome, but due to the proximity to active motor traffic kids under 14 need to have their chaperones present.

November 8th, from noon to 2:00 we meet at 334 County St (Workhorse Realty) and assemble teams to work in. After the two hours of work we provide lunch for all volunteers. It’s a great event for community service as well as making new friends and meeting your Milan neighbors.

The weather has been warmer than usual at this time of year and we’re hoping for a nice autumn day. Rain or shine we get outside and do our service to Milan. Hope to see many of our returning volunteers as well as many new ones.

Thank you in advance!

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Milan, MI
48160

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+17345648968

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