Earth Day spruce up in Spencer

Allan Jung, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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At an Earth Day event on a farm in Spencer Monday, Ethan Hillard, a job coach from the Center of Hope Foundation in Southbridge, pulls a bin full of trash collected by clients and staff from the center.
At an Earth Day event on a farm in Spencer Monday, Ethan Hillard, a job coach from the Center of Hope Foundation in Southbridge, pulls a bin full of trash collected by clients and staff from the center.

SPENCER — At an Earth Day event on a farm in Spencer Monday, clients and staff from the Center of Hope Foundation in Southbridge helped with cleanup.

The farm's bordering woods and wetlands were used as a dump for residents in the 1950s and 1960s, and every year there is a new crop of trash of mostly glass bottles and rusty cans to collect.

Clients from the Center of Hope spend two days a week at the farm as part of a work program, but helped with a special cleanup day Monday for Earth Day, along with students in the environmental sciences vocational program at David Prouty High School.

More: The messy environmental crisis that helped spark the Earth Day movement

Clients and staff from the Center of Hope Foundation in Southbridge took part in an Earth Day event.
Clients and staff from the Center of Hope Foundation in Southbridge took part in an Earth Day event.
Jacob Powichrowski, 6, of Charlton, carries out old cans as part of Earth Day cleanup at a farm in Spencer.
Jacob Powichrowski, 6, of Charlton, carries out old cans as part of Earth Day cleanup at a farm in Spencer.
A pack of alpaca watch Earth Day cleanup activities at a farm in Spencer.
A pack of alpaca watch Earth Day cleanup activities at a farm in Spencer.

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