Help Needed This Saturday: ParadeSweep and Rain Garden Planting

Hi, folks -- I've got two projects happening this coming Saturday, June 18th. I really need a few people to help with each one, so please let me know ASAP if you can pitch in for a few hours?

1) ParadeSweep: Each year, volunteers from BRAT walk at the end of the Springfield Alumni Day Parade to collect trash from the onlookers. I've done with just me and one other volunteer, done it with a handful of motivated folks, and I will tell you it is WAY more fun and easier with more than 3 people! :-) Please let me know ASAP if you can help; we will meet at Artisan Surface (across from the Spfld Police Station on Clinton St) at 9:30-ish. The parade starts at 10am, we are the last group to go (just in front of the fire engines). We end up at Riverside Middle School. The sooner we connect on this, the sooner we can make plans to have transportation at both ends of the parade route, so no one has to walk all the way back to Artisan Surfaces! I will provide trash bags and Youngs Furniture is providing a pickup truck and driver to take our full bags as we walk. You will want sun protection, GOOD walking shoes, a bottle of drinking water (we can keep these in a cooler in the back of the truck), and a sense of adventure.

2) Rain garden planting: by Saturday afternoon (yup, after the parade mentioned above), we should be ready to install the dozens of native plants that I have purchased for a 200 square foot rain garden at #11 Meadow Drive in Springfield. It's just off Pedden Road, which is off Route 106/River Street. I hope to be there by 1pm, ready to get plants in the ground. More hands will make lighter work, so 3-5 people would be a HUGE help!

This rain garden, while being installed on private property, is going to be used as a template and a demonstration site for years to come, illustrating the ways in which a private homeowner can retain rain-water and snow-melt in their soil, which will increase their property value and beautify their home in the process.

Thanks kindly,
Kelly

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Springfield, VT 05156