Leah Krenn, 36, tosses a bag of trash into a bin along Freeport Road in Blanox as Kathy Ulanowicz, 60, prepares to do the same on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Organizers said about 30 people registered for the Blawnox Cleans Up event to mark Earth Day.
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Jil Methven (right) and Diana Powers pick up trash Saturday along
Old Abers Creek Road while participating in the Plum’s Clean-Up Day.
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From left: Nathan Moore, 15, Michael Van Demark, 18, and Samuel Kuhns, 16, clear leaves from the ball fields at Blawnox Community Park on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Organizers said about 30 people registered for the Blawnox Cleans Up event to mark Earth Day.
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Nicole Riggs, and Johnny Riggs, 6, of Plum, pick up trash along Old Abers Creek Road while participating in the Borough of Plum’s Clean-Up Day on Saturday, April 24, 2021.
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Maggie Dick, 17, from O’Hara, paints kindness rocks for visitors to discover at Blawnox Community Park on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The art project was part of the Blawnox Cleans Up event to mark Earth Day.
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Randy Stoddard, 71, sweeps up in front of the Blawnox fire station on Freeport Road on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Organizers said about 30 people registered for the Blawnox Cleans Up event to mark Earth Day.
Two Alle-Kiski Valley communities held community clean-up days Saturday in observance of Earth Day.
Volunteers in Blawnox and Plum took to the streets for several hours Saturday morning, cleaning up parks and other public areas.
In Plum, it was the fifth year the cleanup has been held. Groups met at the borough works facility on Old Mine Road at 8:30 a.m. and worked for around an hour and a half. They cleared debris and picked up trash from a number of areas, including Old Abers Creek Road.
Around 30 volunteers in Blawnox worked from 9 a.m. to noon, clearing out brush, dead leaves and other debris from along Freeport Road and the ball fields at Blawnox Community Park. Groups of Fox Chapel students helped out in the clean-up, with some painting rocks with kind messages on them.
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