Though rain dampened the turnout for the Blackstone Parks Conservancy’s first Earth Day, volunteers made a spirited showing at the Blackstone Park Conservation District.
On River Road, BPC board member Bob Murphy held his annual spring cleanup, drawing 20 volunteers. At Parkside, Friends of Blackstone Woods and the Conservancy joined hands in the Education Committee to produce a crafts table for children and their first official trail walk.
Volunteers guided by Friends also collected an impressive amount of debris for pickup by the city, noting that some of it had come from neighboring yards.
Anyone with yard debris should place it at the curb for pickup. Dumping in the woods creates more work for thinly stretched volunteers. Often, too, it spreads invasive plant species.
