Community Service

Westford Recycling Commission (WRC) Volunteer (25 years)

• The WRC members and volunteers are a team of doers.  

  • We create the content for the WRC website and the WRC Facebook page.

  • We author the How to Recycle Most Everything Guide and the Westford Recycling Guide.

  • We host the in-town collection events and composting demos that provide our community with local, easy, and free-whenever-possible alternatives to the trash.

• For 20+ years, I've been Westford's Household Hazardous Waste coordinator. In that role, I identified and implemented cost savings (changes to printing, moving batteries to free or lower cost collection options, accessing grant funding) that enabled Westford to increase the frequency of HHW collections from every other year to every year.  

• In 2024, I led the expansion of Westford’s Electronics and More Collections to include Zero Waste Days. 

• For transparency:  In the middle of these 25 years (while my son was young), I switched to be a non-voting volunteer who focused primarily on Westford's HHW Collections before returning again as a voting committee member.
  
  

Westford Junk in the Trunk Team Member (since 2021)

• I work closely with the organizer to provide Westford with a free open air gifting exchange to keep usable items out of the waste stream. 

• Responsible for incorporating "The Truck" (New England Clothes Recycling) into the event so that items not given away during the event would still be reused, repurposed, and recycled.

• In late 2025, I championed the transition of Junk in the Trunk to the Town of Westford, as part of the Waste Less Westford and Recycling Commission offerings.  Junk in the Trunk is now positioned to support greater participation by more residents who want a fun community gathering experience to rehome usable but unwanted stuff.
  
  

WEPTO: Day School PTO Co-President (2017-2019)

• I collaborated with our parents, teachers, administrators and other PTOs to expand our support of the Day School Community and we delivered: 

  • Mini-Grants for faculty to provide additional tools and resources to students

  • An expansion of Teacher and Staff Appreciation from one day to one week

  • The Day School Talent Showcase
    
    

Norman E. Day School Playground Committee (2017-2018)

• This amazing volunteer group included past and present members of the Day School administration, teachers, staff, parents, and members of the greater Westford community.

• We worked together to fundraise for the Day School's playground which opened for play in November 2018.
  
  

Cub Scouts: Assistant Den Leader Pack 95 (2015)

• I worked with the Den Leader to bring the scouts together in monthly den meetings, coordinated field trips, and guided Scouts through age-appropriate, rank-advancing adventures.

Rita E. Miller School: Miller Cares - Spring Flower Garden (2014)

• I partnered with the Miller School Administration on a Miller Cares program and facilitated the donation of hundreds of Spring bulbs (daffodils and crocus), planting soil, and mulch from local area businesses.  

• I worked with each class of students in the center courtyard to plant and - through community - build the Miller School's Spring Flower Garden.