by Bea Peterson
It’s amazing what two hundred fifth and sixth grade students can do in two hours. On Tuesday, May 5, from 9:30 to 11:30 am HFCS students, their teachers and volunteer parents fanned out through the Village of Hoosick Falls for some heavy duty cleanup. Teacher Traci Friel, who organizes this event every year or so, took her students to clean up around the railroad tracks and the new Greenway. They filled 30 trash bags with debris thrown over the banks onto the trail and around the tracks. Other classes cleaned around Wood Park, in parking lots, at the Hoosick Falls Fire House, the tennis courts and the playground. They picked up trash, weeded, swept – whatever it took to improve their community. Teachers and teaching assistants, including Amy Sutton, Linda Bird, Nola Dwyer, Chris Zakrzewski, Vickie Malossi, Anne Ferrinnini, Holly Grogan and Jan O’Conner, worked right alongside the youngsters. According to Traci the students were most disgusted by the number of cigarette butts they found littering the streets.
