Julie Jesmer, our Operations Administrator/Executive Assistant to Susan Sweat, recently extended an invitation to our DeKalb operations to join her in her personal community outreach passion project.
For five years now, Julie has worked within the city of DeKalb on various community cleanup projects. In fact, Julie is the founder of the “Trash Squirrels” community cleanup group and sits on City of Dekalb’s Citizens’ Environmental Commission. The Trash Squirrels go into the community one Saturday a month to clean up and beautify the surroundings. Over the past four years, the group has picked up more than 12,000 pounds of trash off the city streets. Once the mayor even called Julie personally asking the group to pick up after a particularly messy Northern Illinois University (NIU) fraternity party.
On May 25th, Julie, the Trash Squirrels and members from Transdev DeKalb operations team got together for a neighborhood/open space trash cleanup in an area that bordered our Transdev location. After four hours, the team had picked up close to 100 pounds of trash. WOW!
Thank you, Julie, for living our purpose, serving the common good and extending this opportunity to our DeKalb team. Clearly, they were proud to participate and proud of their accomplishment (they even got matching t-shirts).
