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. Click here to see pictures of the 2006 event and here for the event in 2005. 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) Brenda Souza works with Liz Dunn, the advisor for the Freedom Writers' group, to rake part of North Park. (Top row, right) Zack Charette, Mankit Chow, Curtis St. Pierre and David Parnell meet to plan how they are going to attack one corner of the skate board park area. (Middle row, left) Ethan Frazier, Justin Marshall and Christian Boucher rake up the opposite end of the skate board park. (Bottom row) Durfee High School InteRak advisor John Saurette oversees the work of Lauren Poirier, Victoria Oliveira, Bailey Brooks, and Corrine Laurianno as they paint the skate board jumps. (Bottom row, right) Massachusetts Promise Fellow Annemarie Sharkey signals her approval of the young peoples' volunteer spirit.