The Great Salt Marsh Clean Up

Grace youth Group - GyG!

Healing the Earth is the Focus of the Grace Youth Group

 The small but mighty Grace Youth Group (GyG) is at it again – they’ve planned their next important environmental action.  This month, GyG is teaming up with CT Community Boating for the Great Salt Marsh Cleanup on the Stratford/Bridgeport line.  This is the second year that GyG has helped CT Community Boating in their work to recover and reclaim this once neglected piece of shoreline.  Salt marshes serve as natural filters for the ocean, but when they get clogged with trash, the important work of microbes, worms, shellfish and shoreline plants is inhibited and damaged.  GyG will be joining the boy scouts, the girl scouts and a group coming down from Boston College to help CT Community Boating clean up the Stratford Salt Marsh on April 14th.  If it’s anything like last year, huge piles of trash and debris will be removed from the shore.

The cleanup will take place from 9-1 on Saturday April 14^th at 600 Long Beach Avenue in Stratford.  GyG invites the people of Trumbull to grab their work gloves and some tough trash bags and meet them at the cleanup site at 9 – or to meet in the rear parking lot of Grace Church (5958 Main Street in Trumbull) at 8:30 if you want to carpool.  Please wear long pants (rubber boots if you have them, ratty sneakers if you don’t) and bring some bug spray, sunscreen and water along with you.  For more info, visit our website:  www.gracetrumbull.org.  If you go to the GyG page, you can also view the video made by the group last year about the the cleanup along with some facts about discarded plastic.  The problem of plastic pollution can be pretty overwhelming.  Here’s a chance to roll up your sleeves and do something about it, Trumbull!  Come help GyG heal the earth!

For more information contact Steve.