Join Wayland Cleans Up! on Saturday
Whole Foods and Starbucks Host Volunteers

Community Cleanup Is Sat., April 18, 8 am – 3 pm

APRIL 13, 2009 – WAYLAND, MA – Dozens of residents already have selected areas of town to ‘police’ for litter on Apr. 18th as part of Wayland Cleans Up! – the annual trash pickup effort on town roadways, ball fields and school yards.

This year, both Whole Foods Supermarket and the Starbucks Coffee store are hosting our volunteers table and providing refreshments to volunteers during the day. A special effort is out to organize a clean up crew for the wetland area just west of the Whole Foods market and parking lot where lots of litter has collected.

The town landfill staff is again going to provide dumpsters at the Claypit Hill Elementary School and at Wayland High School for volunteers to deposit their collections of litter.

In addition to the one-day special effort, the organizers are suggesting people do cleanup whenever they can an report their work to the organization with a photo for the Web site – http://cleanup.pointed.com/!

Volunteers can participate anywhere in town – even if it’s just to walk their neighborhood and pick up paper, plastic, metal, wood, and more. There are plenty of scenic roadways that need cleanup – Stonebridge Road, Glezen Lane, Rte. 126, Rte. 27, Rte. 30, Plain Road– but also public pathways such as those leading into the middle school, and all the ball fields in town all have litter that’s collected around the edges for years.

Volunteers should consider the following:
•    Bring bags, boxes, pails in which to collect litter
•    Bring tools such as stiff rakes and poles and/or nets for fishing stuff out
•    Wear very old clothes and sturdy work gloves and boots, and a hat
•    Use sunscreen and have plenty of water handy
•    Wear bright colors and/or use cones or flags if on roadsides… be safe

Volunteers should contact either organizer right away by phone or email. Kolovson can be reached at 508-655-9696 or cliff@pointed.com; and DeVany can be reached at 508-358-2370 or cDeVany@ppiw.com.

Cliff Kolovson, Wayland Cleans Up! organizer holds the THIRD bag of trash he and his wife Ilene collected between Happy Hollow School and the Middle School enroute to vote last week most of it on the half-mile stretch between the aqueduct and the Middle School on Rte. 27 (Main St). This bag weighs at least 12 pounds… the others were about the same.