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Neighbors all across Norwalk pulled on work gloves and pitched in to clean up their community. Saturday was Keep Norwalk Beautiful day. Students and parents at Brien McMahon picked up the litter around the high school. Friends of Farm Creek tended to the area around Roton and McKinley Avenues. Boy Scouts helped clean up the harbor.
Over at Fox Run Elementary School, members of the West Norwalk Association greeted volunteers with coffee and donuts before handing them gloves and trash bags. Gay MacLeod, the organizer of the West Norwalk effort, directed people to a large map where they could choose the streets they would cover. Assisting MacLeod was her son Brice, 14, who said he had posted the event of his facebook page to help recruit young people.
Simon Barker showed up with his daughter Amanda, 10, and her friend Meredith Pelegrino, also 10. Barker said he was sick of looking at garbage along the curbs and thought it was time to do something about it. We wanted to help, said Amanda before she headed out with her trash bag.
Keep Norwalk Beautiful, an affiliate of the national organization Keep America Beautiful, brings together volunteers who accept the responsibility to clean up their community. David Shockley organized the local event. Norwalks Department of Public Works will collect and dispose of the filled trash bags.
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