FALLS VILLAGE — Falls Village residents fanned out on the town’s streets to clean up roadside garbage and clear out public garden spaces Saturday, April 18.
Sponsored by the Recreation Commission and the Village Gardeners, the event was designed to tie in with Earth Day, officially celebrated on Wednesday, April 22.
The garbage crew checked in at the Hunt Library starting at 10 a.m., where Recreation Commission chair Melissa Lopes was ready with garbage bags, gloves, sunscreen, safety vests and a clipboard listing town streets.
From 10 a.m. to about 10:30 a.m., four people checked in, received the assignments and supplies, and took off.
While the four volunteers spread out to tackle roadside litter, another group got an earlier start focusing on the village’s public planting areas.
The gardeners were also out in force in the downtown area, clearing out the traffic island at Railroad and Main Streets at 9:30 a.m.
First Selectman Dave Barger took Page Road. As he left, he said, “If I had a 10-cent deposit on every nip bottle I found, I could get rid of the national deficit!”
The library had an Earth Day craft activity for children, and at noon offered coffee and baked goods for the volunteers.
