Dump trucks of garbage collected
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — The town’s Putnam Beautification effort still paid off in truckloads of garbage removed from the town’s street.
The annual event was moved to May 3 after the original date was nothing but rain.
Highway Superintendent Travis Sirrine said six or seven dump trucks of garbage were collected by volunteers. In addition the department had some trucks with lift gates that collected things like box springs, mattresses and appliances.
“There was a lot of garbage. It was good to get it out of there,” Sirrine said.
He said the volume of garbage collected was down a little from last year, probably because of the rain necessitated moving the effort a week.
In addition to the main effort May 3, Sirrine said student volunteers from the Pomfret School cleaned up the area around the courthouse on Church Street the week before.
The stop/start area was moved from the usual Rotary Park location to the parking lot on South Main Street. Organizer Karen Osbrey said more than 90 people/teams signed up.
She estimated that there were about 10 volunteers from the Complex Performing Arts Centre, about 10 Boy Scouts and about 10 from the middle school. Jewett City Savings Bank had a team of volunteers including JCSB President and CEO Mike Alberts.
For the volunteers returning from a morning of trash collection, Earl Rosebrooks and Andrew Morrison from the Putnam Business Association manned the grill. Nikki’s Dog House donated the hot dogs; Price Chopper donated the buns; Frito Lay donated the snacks; and the Gates organization donated the water. Osbrey said some unusual finds generally include keys, upholstery and car parts. Last year the most unusual item was a take-out window.
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