Volunteers help make Amenia sparkle in honor of Earth Day

Volunteers help make Amenia sparkle in honor of Earth Day
Volunteering to pick up litter and debris in the town of Amenia, Joanne Boyd helped keep Fountain Square clean as part of this year’s Clean Up Day. Photo submitted

AMENIA — Between the gorgeous spring weather and the tremendous turnout of volunteers eager to keep their community clean, Amenia’s Enhancement Committee and Conservation Advisory Council (CAC) had the quintessential Earth Day weekend to co-host a Clean Up Day on Saturday, April 24, in honor of Earth Day.

Running from 9 a.m. to noon, more than 20 volunteers came out to help spruce up the town and its popular hamlet of Wassaic, by picking up litter and debris along local roads, trails and in their neighborhoods. 

Volunteers had the option of meeting at Fountain Square at the intersection of routes 343, 44 and 22 in downtown Amenia or at Borden Park at the intersection of Main Street and Furnace Bank Road in Wassaic. 

Once they had gathered at their designated meeting place, volunteers split into groups to clean up various sections of the town and hamlet.

Along with thanking all of those who volunteered to help out on Clean Up Day, Town Councilwoman Vicki Doyle thanked Amenia Highway Superintendent Megan Chamberlin for allowing the volunteers to transfer the trash gathered from the group’s utility trailer into two, one-ton Highway Department trucks, thereby saving them a trip to the transfer station in Wingdale.

— Kaitlin Lyle

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