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The Clean Team is founded and organized by Bill Connell.
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What is the Clean Team All About?
The Clean Team meets each Saturday between May and November, rain or shine, and picks up trash for under an hour. You would be surprised what a small group of people can accomplish if they all work together for just one hour a week.
Bags and gloves will be supplied for all volunteers.
Please join us to help keep Nantucket clean.
Letter of 30 June 2009:
Friends:
Records were set last Saturday. At least 18 people in Town - probably more - scouring the piers, parks, roadsides. Great work.
Another 19 tackled Milestone Road, Russell's Way and the beaches between Tom Nevers and the Airport. No, in the one hour we did not get all of the shoreline done. Needed a few more hands, but we removed 500 pounds of trash in that one hour.
I know why three ladies and two boys under six years of age pulled hundreds of pounds of wood and netting from Madequecham Beach, but how did they do it?
Adjunk Members cleaned all of Milestone to Tom Nevers Rd. and most of Polpis Road. Other adjunksters were out and about. Superb effort.
And new Members join us every day; many by existing Members sending me e-mail addresses for new volunteers. We are over 400 strong now. And we are giving birth to a new Clean Team. See my beaming face?
Owen Reilly (tied for youngest Clean Team Member with the Gibsons - around 22 months old in his stroller spotting stuff for his Mom) introduced me to his Aunt. She spends summers in the Hamptons (heard of it; not sure where it is - but it is, Auntie reports, a mess). Not for much longer! At no fee or expense, I shared our Clean Team secrets with her. She's "on the case".
Soon we will have a sibling, rivaling us in size and strength. Congratulations to the Hamptons. You heard it here first!
SATURDAY, JULY 4 (always 8:00-9:00 A.M. only, rain or shine):
- Town: Grand Union Lot; and
- Rotary I&M Building to do (ugh!) Old South Rd., bike paths, Stop & Shop area. Someone has to do it.
THEN - SUNDAY, JULY 5 -- SPECIAL CALL -- 8:00 A.M. at Nobadeer Beach (end of Nonantum Ave.). Say Goodbye to July 4 detritus left by our youngsters. Join many Surfside residents.
And, for those of you lucky enough to have a UV in the 50's, here's the scene when we leave at 9:00 a.m.: an incredulous, young Surfside says to the old, sagest resident: "Who were those people?" The reply rings out loud and clear: "That (pause) was The Clean Team - all 400 of them!"
Bill
Please reply to: wconnell@connellwiener.com
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