After a long and cold winter, the first signs of spring are in the air, mornings and cool evenings, while the temperature rises at midday. These signals are what motivate most people to go out and start collecting what was hidden under the snow. It’s contagious!
In its effort to keep the city clean, besides the normal garbage and recyclables the city will soon begin their programs of yard waste collection. It is a program that all fortunate that have gardens are anxiously waiting for.
In addition, Groundwork Lawrence, who has not rested all winter planning various programs to beautify the city, is already announcing its annual Earth Day, Comcast Cares Day! They are calling all volunteers for the annual cleaning of the entire city that will be held on Saturday, April 30 from 8:00 am-1: 00pm.
You can participate individually or as a group. If your group has a specific beautification project in mind for your neighborhood and would like to direct the project, Groundwork will love to hear from you! GWL is encouraging residents to come and join your group of volunteers and the authorities to enforce all municipal ordinances on garbage, and debris removal.
Also this spring, Groundwork Lawrence has a variety of free classes for the public to take. They just had a kind of very popular cooking class where cooks were invited to share, learn and create something wonderful! More information about the free classes are offered, partly thanks to the support of partners such as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, which allows them to offer free programming for Lawrence residents.
But all this cleanup effort will not be worthwhile unless we all take part in monitoring violators of these ordinances. If we want to keep the city and its neighborhoods clean, we all have to take part, not only in cleaning and sweeping the same sites year after year, but monitoring and reporting violators.
