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The Corrigan Mental Health Center in Fall River commemorated Earth Day on April 22, 2009, by cleaning up a highly littered area off Elsbree Street in the City’s north end. This marks the fifth year in a row that Department of Mental Health (DMH) group residence clients have chosen to spend the morning of April 22nd picking up litter. DMH was joined again this year by Fellowship Health Resources Inc. while the City of Fall River supplied gloves, rakes and brooms.  A local Papa Gino’s restaurant offered a great deal on lunch capping a successful collaborative community effort. It bears noting that three areas from previous years remain litter free, even though they encounter a high volume of traffic from high school and college students. Click here for photos of the 2006 Earth Day clean-up. For more information about the project, contact Clinical Director Greg Cowan at 508-235-7250. (Photos courtesy of Denise Hammel)
 

(Top row, left) Staff member Erin Rosparka of Fellowship Health Resources Inc holds a bag open while Toni Botelho tosses in some trash. (Top row, right) James Gilbert holds the bag while Greg Cowan and Al Proulx pick up trash. (Middle row, left) Susan O'Neil and Bernadette Motta pass out gloves to Clinical Director Greg Cowan. (Middle row, right) Toni Botelho puts trash raked but by team members into a bag. (Bottom row, center) Ellen Bernstein gives Susan O'Neil a hug after a job well-done. (Bottom row, right) Group residence supervisor Bill Nadeau ties up one of the bags of trash before removal.

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