More than a dozen volunteers gathered at North Park for a three-hour clean-up on October 20, 2012. Fall River Park Advocates were joined by Citizens for Citizens peer leaders and Youth Corps teens to pull out trash and rake up untended areas of the Park. "We found the Park amazingly clean," commented clean-up organizer Sandy Dennis. "We spent some time imagining how the park will be used once the new Morton Middle School is completed next fall," she added. The event is one of many throughout the City designed to pick up litter, rake and spruce up public areas. Park Advocacy Coordinator Sandy Dennis has organized more than a dozen similar efforts over the summer. Click here for a brief video about the Youth Court contribution. For more information about the Park Advocates, contact Fall River Park Advocates Sandy Dennis at 508-294-5344.

(Top row) City Councilor Mike Miozza, Jim Cusick, and Ron Thomas pick up trash along President Avenue as Citizens For Citizens peer leaders Shyanne Blackburn, Anne Medeiros, Kaitlynn Botelho, Kayla Pavao and Lilly Nguyen arrive to assist with the clean-up. (Row two) Parks and Recreation Department employee Ron Costa talks with John and Mike while Robert Martins loads the truck with trash bags. (Row three) Youth Court peer leader Dylan Baker works with his crew, led by Community Service Coordinator Jim Bazinet, while Fall River resident David Luckraft pulls trash from the bushes. (Bottom row) Park Advocates coordinator Sandy Dennis talks with Laurie Bartley and Kerry Mello of Southcoast Hospitals, North Park Neighborhood Association President Kris Bartley, City Councilor Dave Dennis and Rose Normandin, also of Southcoast Hospitals, among a number of volunteers who were there from the Hospital.