Sunday, May 15, 2022 || By Community Editor || @maywoodnews
Maywood’s annual Village Wide, Village Pride community-wide cleanup event was held May 14, a few weeks after it was postponed due to inclement weather.
Mayor Nathaniel George Booker said the village ordered about 350 t-shirts for the event, so it’s safe to say several hundred people volunteered to clean up or plant greenery at 19 different sites around the village.
Booker said volunteers planted flowers around the village at places like the 1100 Building, Bosco Park and the Soldiers’ Widows Home on 1st Avenue and Lake Street.
“It was definitely not as bad as it was last year or the year before,” Booker said, referencing the amount of trash and debris that volunteers collected. “There were some tires, but overall there was a lot less to clean up this year.”
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