Some 120 volunteers have registered to participate in a townwide cleanup Sunday afternoon.
Volunteers are wide-ranging, reported Calvin Day, director of sales and marketing for Revise, Inc., sponsor of the event from noon to 4 p.m.
They include dozens of Cub Scouts from Pack 194; members of the environmental advocacy group Mothers Out Front; Select Board Chair Margot Fleischman and Town Manager Sarah Stanton. He said residents can go to www.callrevise.com/bedfordcleanup “to sign up to join the celebration.”
Plans call for concentrating on six locations that organizers say “are in need of attention for removal of trash and recyclables.” The target areas are:
- The old reservoir area off Shawsheen Road;
- Fawn Lake and the narrow-gauge bike path north past Lane School;
- The narrow-gauge trail from Depot Park to Fawn Lake;
- Hartwell Town Forest off Hartwell and South Roads;
- All of Davis Road;
- The Great Road from Mudge Way to Pine Street.
Volunteers will meet at John Glenn Middle School to receive their assignments. Revise employees will hand out gloves, trash bags, recycling bags, water, and hand sanitizer. At the end of the day, Revise will pick up all sorted trash and recyclables and dispose of them.
Revise, which is a Mass Save home performance contractor, is inviting volunteers back to the satellite office at 131 The Great Road after the cleanup from 4-5 p.m. for an appreciation ceremony. The agenda includes refreshments, gift cards to Bedford Farms, and prizes.
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A very big thank you to Revise Energy for organizing and facilitating the town wide clean up today. I’m most grateful for this event and for the care that those who participated offered to the wellness of our town. The amount of trash/litter in our town is staggering and there is plenty more that has yet to be picked up inspite of all of the efforts made today. There are wetlands behind the Northside Convience/Gas Station/Liquor store that has plenty of trash in it amongst other places in town. This is conservation/wetlands and it is loaded with trash. I watched two ducks swim in the Pepper Brook with the plastic trash floating around them. Grateful for the motorists who took care to notice the efforts made to clean up some of this mess and to shout and wave their thanks.
Thank you to Bedford Farms for the gift card and to Revise Energy for the raffle gift card prize. Bonus trash prize of the day was the $20 bill I found that someone had thrown away…….