Pictures from the clean up last Saturday, if you are interested. From: Phoebe Sinclair <psinclair@agassiz.org> Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM To: Ruth Ryals <rryals@comcast.net> Cc: Stephen Diamond <c-sdiamond@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Mass Ave clean up photos Saved for posterity on our Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/gp/agassizbaldwin/k0933b Best, Phoebe -- Phoebe Sinclair Community Liaison Agassiz Neighborhood Council Agassiz Baldwin Community (617) 349-6287 x10 Connect with Agassiz Baldwin on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AgassizBaldwin> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/agassizbaldwin> . We had great participation from the merchants up and down the Avenue who had cleaned their sidewalks and many of the tree/plant beds. Looks great Guys! Ruth On 5/1/16, 2:29 PM, "PSNA on behalf of John Howard" <psna-bounces@lists.portersquare.net on behalf of jhh@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

Once again the annual Porter Square cleanup was a great success. We cleaned most of the sidewalks between Beech Street and Shepard street as well as the MBTA station and park.

Nearly 30 people showed up, including regulars from PSNA, Agassiz, and Neighborhood Nine, quite a few new participants, and eight energetic members of the Lesley Track and Field team. It was a pleasant surprise to see a wide range of ages, including of people in their 20's and 30's.

Christophers' Restaurant hosted some ten of us after the cleanup and donated several plates of snacks. Tags contributed lots of brooms, gloves, and bags in past years; we were able to re-use most of them and anticipate continuing support in future years. The Cambridge DPW did a special trash bag pickup, and the MBTA promised to clean the windows of the Red Line head house.

Lesley University, the Agassiz Neighborhood Council, and the Ward Ten Democratic committee provided publicity, and Ruth Ryals, Susan Hunziker, and (blush) yours truly organized the whole thing. I thought it went very smoothly this year, but we are always open to suggestions for the future, for example in getting greater involvement from businesses.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!

John Howard

p.s. I have one unclaimed snow shovel at my home. Please reply directly to me to recover it. --John _______________________________________________ PSNA mailing list PSNA@lists.portersquare.net http://lists.portersquare.net/listinfo.cgi/psna-portersquare.net