Keep Natick Beautiful Cleanups Begin This Week

NATICK, MA — Care about the neighborhoods in which you live. Join with your neighbors to keep them pretty and clean.

Keep Natick Beautiful announced its third annual Natick Green-Up Week, happening April 18-21, and ending with the big Earth Day Festival on April 23 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Natick Common. These events are held in conjunction with the Department of Public Works, Natick High School Earth Club, the Common Street Spiritual Center and Natick Grows.

The events:

• Tuesday, April 18, 9 a.m to noon: Meet at the Dug Pond (Donahue Boat Landing) (Windsor Ave.) (on-the-water clean-up for Dug Pond, Blueberry Island and shorelines, Trail work along The Timothy Coolidge Woods Trails)

• Wednesday, April 19, 9 a.m to noon: Meet at Pegan Cove Park, just off of Washington Ave. Cutting back Invasive Species (Bittersweet and Knotweed, some litter pick-up)

• Thursday, April 20, 9 a.m to noon Meet at the Roche Bros. Plaza Parking Lot (Speen St. and Rte 135) (Settling Pond Clean-up, plus roadway and bridge clean-up along Speen, Rte 135, Mill St. Bridge)

• Friday, April 21, 9 a.m to noon: Meet at Coolidge Hill, Natick’s only little “bald top.” Park on the shoulder of the Jefferson St. Grassy Triangle). Sweeping up broken glass, picking up litter, and clearing trails.)

Keep Natick Beautiful provides snacks, drinks, tools, water and gloves. Bring your own loppers, water bottle and work gloves.

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