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Photos: Wrigley Employees Help Clean Yorkville's Hwy. 47

The clean-up was part of Mars' volunteer program held Oct. 16.

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Photo 1: Wrigley Yorkville Associates Laura Salz and Adrian Baeza team up to clean up Highway 47.

Photo 2: Wrigley Yorkville Associates Alex Moreno, Adrian Baeza, Laura Salz and Brian Pardo clean-up Highway 47 Oct. 16 as a part of Mars Volunteer Program (MVP) Month. Last year, 21,500 Associates from around the globe spent more than 85,000 hours volunteering through MVP.

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Associates at the local Yorkville Wrigley factory just wrapped up a month-long volunteer effort cleaning up Highway 47. As a subsidiary of Mars, Wrigley sites across the U.S. participate in Mars Volunteer Program (MVP) Month every October, and every site is given the opportunity to tailor the volunteering activities to their community’s needs.

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