City and state officials joined more than forty students and community members to celebrate Make a Difference Day, a national day of service, by removing trash and debris from multiple locations on Cook Pond. This event is part of Massachusetts Community Water Watch's Statewide Make a Difference Day River Cleanup. The Fall River Water Watch project is coordinated at Bristol Community College through the local program there. Hundreds of volunteers participated in cleanups in New Bedford, Lowell, Boston, Medford, Worcester, Amherst and Pittsfield. The event builds on the success of BCC students' October 1st cleanup in which more than forty volunteers turned out to clean areas of the Taunton River. Click here to read the article in the Herald News.
 

(Top row) Edir Lopes and Jon Keesecker, Mass Community Water Watch coordinator, remove a discarded safe from the edge of Cook Pond. Ashley Ustinovich and Jon discuss the find while City Councillor Pat Casey calls the Fall River Police to report the find. (Middle row, left) Ashley Ustinovich, Stephen Downing, Tom Swindler, and Jessie Desmerais clean up some of the trash they pulled from the woods. (Middle row, right) Kelleigh Eastman displays her haul of half a dozen abandoned grocery carts removed from the edge of the Pond on Dwelly Street. (Bottom row, left) Students from Professor Pelletier's class at BCC haul a large tire from the pond. (Bottom row, right) Matt Arruda, Anthony rose and Ashley Jones take a much-deserved break after more than three hours of work.