Museum Clean-Up Day

We’re partnering with the Town of Creston, Creston Community Forest, and Ministry of Forests to host a Community Wildfire Preparedness day – and we’re combining it with our annual spring clean-up of the Creston Museum!

Join us for a community BBQ, learn about fire-smart activities for your own home, and volunteer for pruning trees, clearing vegetation, and removing fire hazards here at the Museum.

At the same time, we’ll do the dusting, cleaning, and freshening-up of exhibits inside the Museum, so everything is clean and sparkling for the busy summer season.

There’s a list of tasks below that we’ll be adding to – and yes, you can absolutely volunteer for something specific!

For the Wildfire Preparedness work: We’ll have some tools and ladders available, but if you have pruners, rakes, or even a favourite wheelbarrow feel free to bring them along. Definitely bring work gloves, and if you’re thinking of tackling a few of the gardening tasks, bring your gardening spades.

For Museum Clean-Up work: We have a couple of brooms and vacuums, two stepladders, a few buckets, and some dusters. We’ll provide the cleaning products and instructions of where to use them (definitely not on the artifacts!). Extra brooms would be great – we never have enough!

Tasks:

Wildfire Preparedness:

• Remove plant growth and debris from in and around all sheds
• Clean eavestroughs
• Attack weeds throughout graveled areas
• Remove dead growth and debris from flower beds
• Prune junipers and shrubs
• Clear out flower beds by schoolhouse steps and heirloom garden
• Prepare flower pots and boxes for drought-tolerant annuals

Museum Clean-Up:

• Dust and sweep historic buildings:
• Cobweb clean-up – check all the corners and nooks and crannies
• Dust exhibits, shelves, objects throughout buildings
• Wipe down display cases and signage in Forestry display; wipe down logging arches (also need annual oil treatment)
• Move random objects from archives entry an on/around combine
• Wash objects in  sheds, tidy up displays and e-set as necessary
• Wash exterior windows and window sills
• Check all exhibit signage and repair as necessary
• Sort, tidy, remove unnecessary supplies under store display and gift shop counter
• Wipe down picnic tables and benches
• Clean washrooms
• Clean out fridges, supply cupboards, etc and make a shopping list
• Put up new flag