River Cleanup On
Green-Up Day

With the community’s help, bottles, cans, plastic bags, paper and cardboard, old tires and debris will disappear from the banks of the Third Branch of the White River Saturday, May 5. As part of the town and statewide "Green Up," the Third Branch Stream Team of the White River Partnership is sponsoring the river clean-up. The community is invited to participate. Volunteers should meet at the Randolph swimming pool at the town recreation area at 9 a.m. to form clean-up teams and to obtain trash bags. Volunteers should wear boots and bring work gloves. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Green-Up Day has been a Vermont tradition for 30 years, bringing out thousands of Vermont volunteers on the first Saturdays in May. Each year over 30,000 bags of litter and trash are picked up from roadsides, trails, streams, lakes and public places. This huge effort enhances the natural beauty of the local community and the entire state.

The White River Partnership was formed in 1996 as a locally led collaboration between communities, citizens, conservation groups, and federal and state agencies. The mission of the Partnership is to help local communities balance long-term cultural, economic and environmental health of the watershed through active citizen participation. There are several "stream teams" in the Partnership; the Third Branch Stream Team serves the Bethel, Randolph, Braintree, Roxbury, and East Granville communities.

For more information about volunteering places call Kevin O’Donoghue at 728-6393 or Ellen Shepheard at 728-6652.