Dear Friends, When you talk of Natick -- Home of Champions, please include the 40+ incredible volunteers who worked the summit and side trails of Coolidge Hill, Natick's marvelous little "Bald Top," (sadly once known as "Glass Mountain" because of decades of abuse, beer blasts, bottle breaking, etc). We had Natick HS students, faculty from Johnson School, the amazing Natick HS Earth Club and its advisor, Doug Milch, the Lake Cochituate Watershed Council - Big Heart Little Feet including LCWC Board Members Carole Berkowitz and Jill MacGlaflin, BHLF veteran Trail Buddies -- Art and Kathy Branagan, Jennifer Wise, John Detweiler, Dan Dick, George Eckert, Sam McCauley, the Asst. Pastor of the Eliot Church, and members of Natick's multi-generational Chorus, Sound and Spirit, including Director Kate Leavey and most of her family, students and families from Framingham's Christa McAulliffe Regional Charter School. After about an hour of work, we took a few minutes to introduce ourselves and say why we came up there. The stories were marvelous. All I can say is that the mountain is absolutely exquisite and now safe for our four legged friends (note the dogs), and all the creatures that inhabit this environmental jewel. Thanks to these volunteers (and our helpers on the previous seven initiatives) this space will never go back to what it was. It's been restored for all of Natick to enjoy (that's 33,000 people). Get up there and see it for yourself; it's a blessing to be thankful for. Heal the Earth and Give Back to Your Community. Simple as that. BTW, Natick will Be Trash Free in 2014, the first community in Massachusetts to accomplish that goal. If you'd like to get involved, just contact me. --Pat
