Friends of the Mystic River Spring Clean up April 27th
Friends of the Mystic River will hold its 18th annual Mystic River Spring Cleanup on Saturday, April 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For the fourth year in a row, the Spring Cleanup meeting place will be at the Hormel Stadium parking lot adjacent to Mystic Riverbend Park.
Volunteers are invited to meet at Hormel to sign in and pick up bags, gloves and instructions. Work will focus on the Mystic Riverbend Park and adjacent MacDonald Park areas, but participants are welcome to travel to any other location along the Mystic in Medford that they may wish to clean up. At the end of the event, organizers will collect all bags of trash that have been filled and return them to the Hormel site for pickup by the city.
Lunchtime refreshments also will be provided at the Hormel site, and all participants will receive a free “Mystic Community Earth Day†button. The Friends of the Mystic cleanup is part of an array of Earth Day week cleanups; the full schedule is available at http://mysticriver.org/watershed-clean-ups/.
In the event of heavy rain on April 27, the Friends of the Mystic cleanup will be held on Sunday, April 28, at the same location and times.
Friends of the Mystic River (www.fomr.org) is a Medford-based community organization focused on the enjoyment, protection and enhancement of the Mystic River in Medford.
For more information, call 781-391-2604 or e-mail Mystic02155@hotmail.com.
The following weekend, Green Medford is organizing its third annual Earth Day Medford Square Cleanup, on Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to noon. Meet in the parking lot behind City Hall near the site of the Medford Farmers Market (One City Hall Mall).
For more information on the Medford Square cleanup, contact Susan Altman of Green Medford at 781-526-4714 or susan.altman@comcast.net, or Anna Nguyen at the Xtreme Ninja Martial Arts Center, 781-395-7131 or xtremeninja1@yahoo.com.
Green Medford (www.greenmedford.org) seeks to educate the Medford community to understand our environmental impact, and to empower members of our community to make more sustainable energy choices related to homes and businesses, transportation and food.
– Submitted by Ken Krause