Big volunteer turn out for Leeds litter pick up

Time to take notice of what isn’t on Leeds road-sides. The soda and nip bottles, beer cans, plastic waste, styrofoam cups and to-go containers, pieces of house siding, old tires, debris and other trash that marred the beauty of the village are gone. Every Spring an effort is made by Leeds volunteers to clear the thoughtless disposal of other people’s trash. The volunteers listed below picked up nearly a dumpster’s worth of trash on Saturday, April 30th and Don Willard’s group picked up two truck loads on Sunday in the rain! Saturday’s volunteers filled large black bags which they left on the roadsides they cleaned. Sue Carbin and Marc Freedman rounded up the bags into Sue’s truck and hauled them to the DPW dumpster at Leeds School. Lynne Imre helped Sue sign people up in front of the PO. Please take notice as you drive or walk along the following roads and trails and if you see any of these helpful folks around the village give them a hearty “thank you.”

Driver & Trash Loader – Sue Carbin & Marc Freedman
Reservoir Rd – Bruce Walker, Rob Urbank, Tom Silliman & Arissa, Trish Reidy, Jason Johnson River Rd – Chart Pak employees
Arch St & trail – Singwen Mientka and Pine Forest Northampton Ueshiro Karate Studio members Spring & Dimock – Rondina family
Mulberry & Main – Margaret Aroj, Michael MacDonald
Lower Main Street – Jason Johnson
Florence, Bernache, Stowell, Heffernan Streets, Route 9, east side – Hodgson-Skantz family
Route 9, west side (E. Center to Scotti’s, Look Restaurant to VA) – Heidi Stevens, Justin O’Connor
Chesterfield/Kennedy/Reservoir intersection – Fran & Wayne Thibault
Yankee Hill neighborhood – Kim Wojcik and Steve, a new resident to Beaver Brook Extension
Mill River dirt trail (north) – Alisa Klein, Amy Stamm
Mill River banks – Penny, Leo, Otto and Juni Geis
Beaver Brook Conservation area on Rt 9 – Deb Jacobs
Sylvester Road and the intersection – Don Willard’s group had 21 volunteers