Youth leadership groups organized under the Mayor's Youth Council and the Healthy Youth Task Force, celebrated national Make a Difference Day on October 23, 2010. This project was one of several held throughout the city on that day as part of the national Make a Difference Day, promoted throughout the United States to encourage people to take an active role in serving others. Thousands of projects are either begun or concluded on the last Saturday in October. Click here for photos of a clean-up project at Griffin and Maplewood Parks and here to see photos of youth from the Boys and Girls Club cleaning up downtown sidewalks. For more information contact Fall River Youth Services Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Healthy Youth Task Force Christian McCloskey at 508-324-2419.

(Top row, left) AmeriCorps volunteer Syed Zaman accompanies a group along Bedford Street. (Top row, center) Jeremy Folger, Brandon Pankowski, Josh Moniz, Riley Caballero and Odilio Soares finish cleaning up along the south side of Bedford Street and end at the Post Office plaza. (Bottom row, left) Karrie Lucas, Angela Furtado, Jason Caballerro, Morgan Luz, Alex Benjamin, Destini Gruber, Aaron Dern are joined by Boys' and Girls' Club Teen Director Mimi Larrivee. (Bottom row, center) Center director Peter McCarthy meets the group to take them back to the Club.