Town of Montgomery volunteers beautify community

By Connor Linskey
Posted 4/21/21

More than 80 volunteers filled up over 125 bags of garbage Sunday as part of the Town of Montgomery’s Operation Clean Sweep. The group helped beautify areas of the town such as Canning Road, …

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More than 80 volunteers filled up over 125 bags of garbage Sunday as part of the Town of Montgomery’s Operation Clean Sweep. The group helped beautify areas of the town such as Canning Road, Route 416, Route 17K and Route 208.

This event was put together by the Walden Rotary Club, the Town of Montgomery Community Response Team, the Valley Central (VC) High School National Honor Society as well as the high school’s environmental and science clubs. More than 25 VC students participated along with Walden Savings Bank employees, members of the citizens group Residents Protecting Montgomery (RPM) as well as employees from Medline Industries, Inc., the Town of Montgomery Police Department and the Town of Montgomery Industrial Development Agency as well as many other community residents.

Karina Tipton, a member of RPM, underscored the importance of picking up litter in the Town of Montgomery.

“The Wallkill [River] is so close,” she said. “Everything that doesn’t get picked up by us is gonna get picked up by the rain and is gonna wash into the Wallkill.”

Montgomery Town Supervisor Brian Maher was proud of the residents for their hard work cleaning up the community.

“This event was truly a great example of our community coming together regardless of political affiliation and beautifying our town,” he said. “Thank you to all of the individuals and groups that participated!”

Don Berger, one of the founders of RPM, believes that there should be more community cleanups.

“This is something that really doesn’t cost the town and the taxpayers anything. All it costs us is a couple hours of the day to come out on a weekend,” he said. “I think more of these would certainly help our community all around.”