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Just Do It Day at Cascades ParkWorcester, MAApril 9th, 2011 |
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After three consecutive years, volunteering with the Greater Worcester Land Trust (GWLT) on Clark's annual day of
service is fast becoming a tradition for us. This time we joined forces with Clark's Eco-Reps and took Cascades
Park by storm with 19 volunteers! Working alongside another group of 9 volunteers from Clark's Student Alumni
Relations Committee (SARC), our Just Do It Day site was bustling with activity!
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The ever-gracious GWLT duo of Colin (Executive Director) and Mary (Volunteer Coordinator) were ecstatic to see such a vast sea of purple Just Do It Day T-shirts advance toward their trailhead. They quickly gave us our marching orders. Fueled by Colin's home baked cookies, we tackled one project after another at lightning speed. 
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On the trail next to the Cascades Waterfall, some of us installed log stairs in the switchbacks leading up the hillside. |
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Others fanned out across the Boynton/Cascades Park trail system, clearing undergrowth and re-painting faded trail blazes of red,
yellow and blue. The yellow blazing team easily won the diligence prize for their thoroughness!
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Meanwhile, back at the Cascading Waters lodge, the rest of our group along with the SARC volunteers worked on frames for new property signs.
It started with raw materials and inspiration... |
...which led to bow saw hewing and bark stripping. |
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Notches were chisled into the wood so the frame pieces would interlock. |
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More bark stripping, and putting the finishing touches on a new fire danger sign for the trailhead. 
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When the day was done, we gathered our forces in a convoy back to Clark, where we met up with volunteers from all the other
sites at the Just Do It Day pizza party in the Grind. A perfect ending to a perfect day!
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