Volunteers Spend Saturday Cleaning Up the Trail

It was perfect outdoors weather on Saturday, and a group of more than 40 volunteers met at the and chose to spend the morning combing the Danvers Rail-Trail looking for trash or other items that didn’t belong.

Town Senior Planner Kate Day said the enthusiastic volunteers collected 174 bags of debris along the , leaving it clean and ready for the next phase of work, which involves compacting the surface and laying down smoothed gravel along the entire length of the old railway corridor, from one end at Route 114 up to the Topsfield line behind Locust Street.  

“The Rail Trail Advisory Committee extends its warmest appreciation to all the Kiwanis volunteers who worked hard to beautify the rail-trail and to Kiwanis for purchasing the bright orange trash bags and some pretty flowers for trailside planting,” said Day.

The Danvers Kiwanis Club sponsored the activity, which was part of the Kiwanis National Community Service Day, and the Danvers Bi-Peds pitched in as well with refreshments and a raffle.

Day said volunteer Paula Boyce, who lives in the Pickering Street neighborhood, offered to adopt two planters that were donated courtesy of Selectman Bill Clark and which are now filled with blue and yellow pansies.

Clark, who also owns , donated several decorative barrels to kick off the trail beautification program, “Adopt-a-Planter.”

For more information about the rail-trail, call Day or Kristan Farr in the town Planning office at 978-777-0001 ext. 3029.