St. Anne's Hospital sponsors a Mission Day project every year. This year, on September 5, 2007, staff engaged in a Neighborhood Clean-up Project in the area around the Hospital and on the sidewalk along the fence of St. Anne's Shrine on Middle Street. This event addresses one of the Healthy City priority areas of Cleaner Streets and Parks throughout the city. The Department of Public Works will assist any group that wants to organize a similar neighborhood clean-up by supplying tools and picking up trash. City-sponsored clean-ups this summer included the Bank Street Clean-up, the clean-up at Father Diaferio's Development, the Maplewood Park clean-up, the Peaceful Coalition Clean-up, the Sandy Beach clean-up, the Taunton River clean-up, and the Smudge the Grudge graffiti removal. Click here for photos of the 2005 Mission Day clean-up. For more information about Mission Day, contact Sister Carol at 508-674-5600.

(Top row, left) Tools supplied by the Hospital and by the Fall River Public Works Department are lined up early in the morning in Berube Plaza awaiting volunteers. (Top row, center) Signs designating various clean-up spots were placed around the hospital property. (Top row, right) Director of Institutional Services Ismael Garcia gives instructions to Sister Carol who helped to organize the event. (Middle row, left) Lee Silva, a nurse in the FirstFed Center for Breast Care, examines a map of the hospital property with Sister Carol and Mr. Garcia. (Middle row, right) Emanuel DeSousa and Matthew Souza head out with the truck to place signs at various clean-up spots. (Bottom row) Sidewalks along Middle Street next to the Shrine were picked clean by the volunteer crews.