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September 03, 2010 - 05:08 AM
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May 03, 2010 - 08:26 PM
Jill Lapham Kelly
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I was finishing up my freshman year at Green Mountain College in Poultney. I remember collecting rubbish from the sides of the road somewhere near the campus. I was glad to be a part of the first Green Up Day! I live in Massachusetts but make frequent trips to Vermont and Ireland - one place is as green as the other!
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May 01, 2010 - 12:06 PM
Andrew K. White
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I remember being part of the Boy Scout troop and picking up along RT.15 by Blow and Cote to the Dump Road and on Bridge Street by Lake Lamoille. George Paine drove us around in his brown Jeepster. I remember that we set on the tailgate with our feet dragging the pavement.We spent a long time on Bridge Street as that seemed where everyone would bump their cans and trash.
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May 01, 2010 - 10:58 AM
Marian Guihan
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I just got off the phone with my Dad, asking him "Do you remember where we were 40 years ago right now?" "Yep" he said right away, "walking up the north bound lane of the interstate filling bags with trash!" My Dad was the headmaster of the Putney Grammar School at the time and he took a bunch of us 8th graders, riding in the open back of a pick-up, up the closed interstate to "our" mile. Like another person who wrote here, I still think of that mile as "ours". It was north of Putney where they were just building some new, fancy rest areas.....those rest areas were just torn down and closed, unbelievable. We had a grand time running all over the interstate and we filled that truck with trash, the ride back was not as spacious! Then we went on to clean a local road in Putney, the name of which I can't remember. But I do remember that Gov. Davis had dropped a lot of cans from a helicopter with dollar bills attached to them as incentive, and I found one! Shoulda kept it. My Dad doesn't have internet so he couldn't share here but he asked me to be sure and say the we were all in his brand new 1970 Ford pick-up. In the true spirit of Green up Day, that ol' truck was never dumped. It went on to live a long productive life on the farm, and they still have it. Far as I know it'll still start.
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May 01, 2010 - 08:50 AM
Meg Anderson Hagen
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In 1970 my mother and I cleared a long section of Routes 4 and 12 North in Woodstock on Green Up Day. We began at Billings farm below Mt. Tom, and I have a proprietary fondness for it, still considering it "my stretch of road", although it is too dangerous a section to be cleared now on Green Up Day.
I was 11 yrs. old, and remember the day vividly - hunting for trash along both sides of the road in the flattened grasses and along the steep banks of the rushing brook, the cars whizzing past us, the sun warming us, and that we felt great satisfaction about having many bags full of other people's stinky trash packed away in the back of the car when we finished.
Frank H. Teagle Jr. was a visionary in the development of Woodstock's recycling efforts in the early 70's, and when we dropped off our piles of bags he was always on top of a huge pile of collected rubbish, sorting out valuable materials, God bless him. Thanks to his example I have remained devoted to recycling.
Many years of cleaning up Woodstock roads later... I now live in Norway and continue the tradition of "greening up" here, when the snow melts in late May, and I share the story of Vermont's Green Up Day with anyone who will listen. I have planned several visits back to VT to include the first Saturday in May, in order to join dedicated friends and former classmates in front of the Town Hall at 8 am. I feel tremendous pride that my home state in the U.S. places such a value on natural beauty, and that thousands of Vermont residents are willing to pay for it each spring with miles and miles of sweat equity and smiles!
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April 30, 2010 - 02:21 PM
Teri Emilo
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Hopefuuly with the publics awareness of the Earth and how important it is to keep it clean! many people will be out on Saturday cleaning up!! Happy 40th Birthday!! GREEN UP.
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April 30, 2010 - 02:09 PM
Connie Beal
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I believe it was Green Up 2006 that my friend, Jon Harris & I dressed up as Green Up Superheros! We were Americorps VISTAs and volunteered to play the part. We wore sparkling green wigs, spandex and the fabulous bright green t-shirt with a flowing cape. It was quite a day, hundreds of bags of trash were collected in Burlington. The green wig and spandex are now retired, but not forgotten. Every year, I get out there to green up our streets. Go green go!
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April 30, 2010 - 08:06 AM
Dean E. Haller
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I was a Rook at Norwich University and "was asked" to participate in Green Up Day in 1970. I do not recall the exact location we were assigned to and I really didn't understand the significance of the moment, but I was there. I left Norwich after my second year and attended Duquesne University. I married a wonderful young woman from my high school in Pennsylvania who attended Green Mountain College. We lived in Pittsburgh until returning to Vermont to raise our two young children in 1990. I now own a business, HRSentry, located in Colchester, VT. I will be participating in Green Up Day tomorrow thinking about the day and the person I was forty years ago.
Dean E. Haller
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April 30, 2010 - 07:16 AM
Kris Rowley
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I participated in the first Green Up event. My church group was assigned Rt. 14 in East Brookfield into the Williamstown gulf.
One thing that I remember finding on that day, besides tires and other trash, was a Norwich University cadet ring! It was in a box that was thrown out in one of the pull-offs in the gulf. At my young age I thought I had found the biggest treasure in the world!NU cadet rings are rather large.
The adults in the group called NU and we returned the ring to the officials there. We later heard that the ring was returned to its rightful owner, who was very glad to have it back.
I have participated in several Green Up events since that first one. It is a wonderful way to get outside, enjoy the beauty of our great state and do something to keep it looking that way.
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April 29, 2010 - 06:59 PM
Sandra Luneau Leclair
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I can remember participating in Green-up Day with my 4H group in St. Albans. My dad, who was a local dairy farmer, would hook up the manure spreader and we would clean all of Kellogg Road.
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