Project Goals - Our goals are to make our community a better and cleaner place and keep the animals and little children safe from any litter and trash. We want to reduce the amount of the trash in the lakes and oceans because animals tend to eat that trash thinking it is food, but end up getting sick and dying from not being safe. Young children also tend to pick up anything they can find and put it in their mouths. We don’t want any children to get sick or injured from putting something dangerous they find on the ground into their mouths.

Progress - On Saturday November 14 we cleaned up Goodwill Park and one section of the rail trail. We collected one and half bags of trash .. which is crazy! On Sunday November 22 we picked up trash at Stoddard Park. We collected one full bag of trash!

Town Partnerships:

• Robert Weidknecht

  • He is a part of the trails committee for the Holliston Rail Trail

  • We have a zoom conference with him discussing our project and what we would need from the town to achieve our goal

  • He also gave us Tina Hein and Travis Aherns contact information

• Tina Hein

  • She is on the Select Board for Holliston

  • She emailed us a link to their conference from November 16 so we could hear what the town had to say about trash pickup in Blaire Square and learn more about what we would need to do

• Travis Ahern

  • He is the Town Administrator

  • He helped us get into the Select Board meeting to present our project

• Donna Muzzy

  • She helped us get in contact with Mr. Weidknecht

Social Media:

Instagram - pick.it.up.program

Tik tok - pickitupprogram

Email - pickitupprogram@gmail.com

GoFundMe - https://gf.me/u/y9xj52

Select Board - https://hollistonreporter.com/2020/12/select-board-gets-update-on-stipends/

Slideshow - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xWFpc3K9nvXPN9_4vnRW6BWjBQ978Lgkdk8y3B0zxyo/edit?usp=sharing