In anticipation of the April 22nd Earth Day, students from Morton Middle School pitched in to clean up the adjacent North Park. The one-day service project took on the trash and debris that was scattered throughout the area that is used by school students for physical education classes, as well as by community groups and Little League teams. Brooms and rakes were provided by the Department of Public Works  which makes these tools available to any community group. Morton teachers Karen Fairhurst and James Madison organized the event that involved nearly all of the 700 middle school students. This project is a great example of how any group can pitch in and help to make Fall River a cleaner place to live and work, one of the Healthy City goals of Cleaner Streets and Parks. Click here to read the Herald News article about the event.
 

(Top row, left) Stephanie Resende, teacher John Saurette, Sunni-Lynn Farias and Carlton Viens clean up the concrete stands constructed by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. (Top row, center) Students pose with the mound of trash bags that they assembled during the day-long project. (Bottom row, right) Eighth-grader Cassie Jacobson does some of the finish work with a brush at the end of the clean-up. (Photos courtesy John Saurette)