THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FriDAy, April 19, 2024 Page 7 An Earth Day Chore SAVE volunteers fi lled 60 small trash bags in three hours during their second annual cleanup of land bordering the parking lot of Saugus Middle-High School By Mark E. Vogler R yan Duggan says it isn’t easy cleaning up after the drive-by pigs who toss their trash out of their car windows as they speed northward on Route 1 or the litter bug motorists who make a special detour into the parking lot outside the Saugus Middle-High School which faces the highway. “We were going seven layers deep on that hill,” said Duggan, one of the 14 volunteers who turned out for three hours of cleanup duty last Saturday (April 13) as the Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE) completed its second annual event in the area behind the Middle-High School. “You’d pick up one layer and then you would have another one, and another one …” he said. “But you can tell we made a big diff erence here today. We filled close to 60 bags. And that’s more than last year. And it’s made quite a visible diff erence, as you can see,” he said. Duggan is a SAVE Board of Director. A car bumper, a debit card, a badly damaged pager, loads of candy wrappers, a lot of “fi reball” nips, empty French fry boxes from McDonald’s, empty plastic water bottles, socks, numerous tennis balls, paper and plastic cups and a bunch of single use plastic bags – the same kind that SAVE lobbied the town to ban several years ago – made up the waste stream for the Saturday cleanup. SAVE Treasurer Mary Kinsell, who helped to organize this year’s event, said she was inspired by the work of the small group. “I feel like we really nailed it today,” Kinsell said. EARTH DAY| SEE PAGE 8 LEADING THE LITTER PATROL: Left to right: Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE) Treasurer Mary Kinsell and SAVE Co-President Stephanie Shalkoski presided over the three-hour cleanup in the parking lot between the Saugus Middle-High School and the northbound lane of Route One. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) THE CLEANUP CREW: The 14 volunteers who turned out last Saturday in the back of the parking lot at Saugus Middle-High School to clean up a trail of trash for the second annual cleanup of the school complex organized by Saugus Action Volunteers for the Environment. (Saugus Advocate photo by Mark E. Vogler) RON’S OIL Call For PRICE MELROSE, MA 02176 NEW CUSTOMER’S WELCOME ACCEPTING VISA, MASTERCARD & DISCOVER (781) 397-1930 OR (781) 662-8884 100 GALLON MINIMUM
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