Town of Bristol Seeks Earth Day Volunteers

The Town of Bristol is currently seeking volunteers to help beautify Bristol with a spring cleaning sweep.

The town Earth Day event, organized by Bob Holt with the help of Carol Mello from the Department of Public Works, will take place on Saturday, May 5, starting at 9 am at the town .

"We had approximately 125 volunteers last year and roughly 39 sites available," Mello said. "We hope to have as many or more this year."

During the sign in on Saturday, May 5, at 9 am, volunteers will be able to choose from a list of locations to volunteer to clean. The Town Common and Town Beach, both large and popular sites for volunteers, are also on the site list.  

"We like to fit the site based on safety, age group & location," Mello said. "We give each site a captain and a manila folder containing instruction on marking the bags (T for trash, R for recycling and C for compost and most important do not handle medical waste, we have a policeman available to handle those issues)."

Participants will be served coffee and doughnuts from 9 to 9:30 am on Saturday at the Public Works building, located at 111 Mt. Hope Avenue in Bristol. The cleanup will commence at 9:30 am and will end around noon.