Warren Conservation Commission - 2014 Earth Day Clean-up

John Kemp greets Senator Wally Felag and Conservation Commission Member Jerry Belair at the Pete Sepe Pavilion in Warren Recreation Park.

Barrington Boy Scout Troop Four members Owen Roberts, Santino DePasquale, John Kemp and Dominick DePasquale pose for a group photo before joining in the clean-up effort.

Warren Department of Public Works staff members Mark Wells, Richie Pimentel and Frank Amaral enjoy a cup of  coffee before heading out to pick up trash bags..

Warren Grange members Jeanette Kenyon and Terri Messier look over the tee-shirts provided to Earth Day clean-up participants. 

Keith and Robin Daniel sign-up with Conservation Commission member Jane Harrison to clean-up an area of the town off of Medicom Avenue.

Jeanette Kenyon talks with Ann Parks in front of the Kickemuit River Council display provided by Ann Morrow, right.

Five-year-old Enrik Attemann holds a frosted donut provided by Dunkin Donuts to participants in the clean-up.

Chien Nguyen, center, looks at an owl's nest that Conservation Commission member Jerry Belair will be installing in Warren.

Conservation Commission member Barbara Paroline looks for trans in a brook that runs through Recreation Park.

Jamel Olson supervises Joshua-Ian Olson and Jessica Silva as they clear trash from the storm grate across the street from the Kickemuit Middle School.

Dominick DePasquale tosses a grappling hook into the Kickemuit Reservoir in search of submerged trash.

Dominick DePasquale holds up an artificial worm that he pulled from the brush along the Reservoir off of Schoolhouse Road. Fishermen leave a lot of their tackle there.

Crystal Feijo and her son, Noah, watch as Theresa Cannistraro pulls a log out of the back of the North Burial Ground.

Dave McCarthy tosses a large branch on a pile in the North Burial Ground to be picked up later by the DPW crew

Camille Bucci, Gillian O'Brien and Samantha Proulx-Whitcomb look for trash in the brush along Franklin Street.
Gillian O'Brien, Camille Bucci, and Samantha Proulx-Whitcomb pose for a photo with an encrusted doll that they found among the trash. Chelsea Vales rakes up seaweed that washed up from the Kickemuit River along the Laurel Park section of town. Adults and children from the Laurel Park Neighborhood pose for a group photo after working to clean-up that area.
LCorey Stanley , right, of the Corliss Institute supervises a group in picking up trash near the bike path off of Brown Avenue. The group from the Corliss Institute, all of who are severely hearing impaired, pose for a photo after cleaning up along the East Bay Bike Path in the North End of Warren. Susan Black puts on a glove before helping Ann Marie Kehoe fill up a bag of trash along Serpentine Road.
Nicole and Kristen Black pick up more trash along Serpentine Road which they found to be cleaner that it has been in past years. Harry and Debra Young pose with one of four tires found along Schoolhouse Road near their house. They find constant dumping along that stretch of road. Richard Keiser, who designed this year's Earth Day tee-shirt, poses for a photo with Chuck Kenny.
Richard Keiser and Chuck Kenny pulled this chair and ottoman out of the brush along Bushee Road which has become a favorite dumping ground. Donny and Tracy Bouchard pose for a photo at the corner of Barker Avenue and Child Street where they raked up some of the brush. Randy Gersbach, Jim Rebello, Patricia Gersbach and Terry Messier work the grill to provide free hot dogs and hamburgers for the returning clean-up participants.
Jan Martin of Bradbury Street holds a Hubbard squash that she displayed along with other information about organic gardening as part of an educational display. Ann Marie Kehoe and Susan Black hold their prize for finding one of the more unusual objects, a complete car stereo system they picked out of the brush along Serpentine Road.  Jane Harrison present Camille Bucci,, Gillian O'Brien and Samantha Proulx-Whitcomb with a prize for their find of an encrusted doll (see photo, above)
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