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Fair Community cleanups set for weekend
Several parks and waterways in Baldwin are slated to get a spring-cleaning this weekend with two planned community cleanups.
On Saturday, Assemblyman Brian Curran, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and a host of local community organizations are organizing cleanups at Lofts Pond and Milburn Pond parks from noon to 3 p.m. This marks the fourth year Brian Curran has organized the Earth Day event and rotates the parks cleaned each year.
“Baldwin has beautiful parks and community involvement in keeping them up and making them look as beautiful as possible for the residents is the goal,” he said. “Earth Day just provides that opportunity to appreciate the parks that much more.”
Each year, Brian Curran walks each of the parks to see if there are any larger projects that need to be done. If that’s the case, he alerts the Nassau County Park Department and has it taken care of either before or during the cleanup.
Volunteers will pick up debris, plant flowers and spruce up the each of the parks on Saturday.
The following day, County Legislator Laura Curran is hosting a cleanup at Brookside Preserve beginning at noon at the corner of Lorenz Avenue and Brookwood Drive. This year, she has teamed up with the South Shore Audubon Society, which uses the preserve for bird watching.
At the same cleanup last year, Laura Curran said about 20 volunteers attended, but she’s hoping for more this Sunday. Brownie Troop 2427 will be on hand, she said, but more people are always welcome.
Also, she added, hosting the cleanup gives residents a chance to see the preserve for what could be the first time. “It’s so pretty in there and nobody wants to go in there because there’s all this trash,” she said. “I want more people to come into the preserve. So many people who live in our area don’t even know that this exists.”
She first got the idea to host the preserve cleanup last year when a Lorenz Avenue resident reached out to her regarding a large amount of litter. Now, after a long winter, there’s plenty more litter to be picked up.
Volunteers are welcomed and encouraged to come out to both cleanups.
