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Mel Swart Park gets a facelift (4 photos)

Cold, windy weather didn't deter volunteers from sprucing up the park Saturday morning

About a dozen environmentally-conscious Thoroldites braved the cold Saturday morning to plant trees and clean garbage at Mel Swart Lake Gibson Park.

In addition, according to volunteer David Griffiths, "Some 20-year-old trees had ash disease and had to be removed" from the natural passive park.

Organizer Rosemary Jasinski and her coworkers from Accenture have been helping out at Earth Day celebrations at the park for at least a decade.

"This year, we planted 20 nut trees at the front and then we will prune and clean up the scrub at the waterfront," she told ThoroldNews. "Last week, we couldn't do it because it was torrential rain.”

Despite postponing the event by a week, the weather was still less than cooperative Saturday, with light flurries falling in the morning.

 


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