Warren Conservation Commission - 2013 Earth Day Clean-up

SRobin Remy-Vernon and Olivea Thorpe enjoy some of the donuts donated by Dunkin Donuts for the volunteers at the Pete Sepe Pavilion.

Senator Wally Felag is greeted by Conservation Commission member Jerry Belair as Conservation Commission member Diane Warrem looks on.

Warren Conservation Commission Corresponding Secretary Jane Harrison talks with George Fitting prior to the start of the clean-up

Kickemuit Grange members Karen Miller, Jeanette Kenyon and Jim Rebello finish their breakfast befores setting up the grill for the upcoming lunch.

Maria Cloutier and her son, Jack, work on cleaning up along Schoolhouse Road near where they live.

Local artist Richard Kaiser works along the upper reservoir on Schoolhouse Road while wearing one of the tee shirts that he designed for this year's event..

Gerry Avilla and Jacob Lima of the 106 Civil Air Patrol in Warren work on cleaning up the North Burial Ground which has long served as a final resting place for veterans.

DPW Clerk Judy Fardig works with Ernie Miner of American Legion Post 104 to clean up the North Burial Ground.

Catherine, Margareet, Maggie and Mikayla Lopes work together to clear trash and brush from the back of the North Burial Ground.

Traci Leslie Gifford works by herself to clean up along Water Street. "The cigarette buts are the worst", she said.

Matt and Phil Keefe haul a heavy bag of garbage picke up along the Kickemuit River in the Laurel Park Area.

Marion Bulduc, Nicole, Kristen and Susan Black and Ann Marie Kehoe stop for a photo as they work along Vernon Street close to where they live.

Robin Hagan Aguiar fills a bag with sticks, leaves and debris in the small park along Laurel Lane in the Laurel Park Area.

Jennifer Vaugn, Christine Andrews, Mackenzie O'Donnel and Emma Trail, in front, pose for a photo at the Saint Mary of the Bay Cemetery.

Lynn Vaughn poses for a photo with Emma after working to clean up the other end of the Cemetery sidewalk along Vernon Street.
Lisa Speidel stops working along Market Street where Jezzalee Nunes and Eric Sousa from the neighborhood joined her. Frank and Joan Alfano join Joe DePasquale, John Kemp and Joe's son, Dominic, with a load of items that Joe and John pulled from the Kickemuit River near the Broken Bridge. Hannah and Lindsay Ayers, Gillian O'Brian, Camille Bucci, Samantha and Dee Proulx, and Maddy Bryant, kneeling, stand behind some of the items they gathered along Franklin Street.
DPW employee Frank Amaral tosses a full bag of trash onto one of the Town trucks along School Street at the end of the morning. Trish and Randy Gershbach work with Jim Rebello of the Kickemuit Grange to get the hot dogs grilled in time for the returning volunteers. Sam Campenella, Ben Cloutier and Troy Dabidia of Warren Boy Scout Troop 25 enjoy some of the hot dogs following the clean-up.
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