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Anti-Litter Committee works to beautify village streets By Jessica Semins
volunteers filled eight garbage bags with trash that had been tossed on the quipped with “nifty nabbers,” roadside, David Sabatino, the committ adds pride to tee’s village liaison, said. The group gloves and garbage bags, the community to met at Fletcher Avenue and West Mermembers of Valley Stream’s Anti-Litter Committee took to the see how beautiful it rick Road, and spread out in smaller groups as far as Hendrickson Avenue streets mid-June 2021 to help beaureally can be. in one direction and Rockaway Avenue tify the village. The Anti-Litter Comin the other. mittee was formed during the panKevin Waszak “We have so many streams here, demic last year as a sub-committee and they all collect storm water,” Saof the Beautification Committee. Beautification batino said, noting that each piece of Volunteers meet monthly to identify Committee chair litter removed from a storm drain can problem areas and develop cleanup help improve the village’s appearance plans. The committee focuses on and the environment. “It’s a small impact, but it’s areas with the most trash. huge down the line.” “It adds pride to the community to see how Residents interested in joining the village’s beautiful it really can be,” Kevin Waszak, the BeauBeautification Committee or any of its subcommittification Committee’s chair, said of the cleanup tees can e-mail vsbeautification@gmail.com for results. The committee’s efforts are having a more information. cumulative impact. At times during cleanup sessions, volunteers will join along the way. Spurred by the committee’s cleanups, residents sometimes organize their own. JEssica Semins/Herald During the two-hour morning cleanup in June, Above photo: The anti-litter committee formed amid the pandemic.
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