Volunteers spent Tuesday evening working to keep downtown Rockville beautiful.
The Vernon Rocks Coalition, the Rockville Public Library and the Vernon Cultural District Commission hosted the Vernon Community Cleanup and volunteers fanned out across downtown to pick up trash, with a special focus on cigarette butts, nip bottles and other detritus of substance use and abuse.
Allison Chiasson and her son Greyson Wisnieski, 7, pick up trash along East Main Street in Rockville.
Cassandra Schend of Vernon Rocks proposed the cleanup after a similar program got rained out earlier this year.
The volunteers worked along East and West Main streets, Talcott Park and elsewhere in Rockville.
Allison Chiasson and her 7-year-old son Greyson Wisnieski worked along East Main Street.
“We’re here just helping the community,” Chiasson said. “I read there was going to be a community cleanup and signed up.”
Julia Jasica, left, and Livia Crowley pickup trash in Talcott Park.
Livia Crowley was picking up trash in Talcott Park with several friends.
“I love in Vernon and like doing community service,” she said.
And Bernie Sykes, who was picking up trash near the businesses on West Main Street, said he “came to help out.”
The Vernon Rocks Coalition works to help young people throughout Vernon avoid the risk factors that lead to substance use and abuse.