May we have your attention
Our next meeting, August 11, is the big one. We are launching teams for Haverhill Goes Green, Bloomfest, Earth Day cleanups, Adopt A Park, Burial Grounds and Community Garden subcommittees as well as Tattersall Farm day. We desperately need more willing souls to accomplish all of this.
We also are looking for a new Treasurer, as Britta is leaving Sept 15. There are also two Vice President positions available.
Please come out Aug 11 ,7 pm, room 205 of City hall, and support our efforts. Let's launch year two of Brightside in a big way. Bring a friend.
Douglas Edison, President
Haverhill's Brightside Inc.
978-809-9695
Recycle your mercury products
Aug 18 and Oct 6, 8am - 1pm
Keep mercury out of the waste stream. Drop off your burned-out florescent (including compact florescent) lights, mercury thermostats and thermometers (exchanged for digital thermometers). Please see this Mercury Collection Notice for full details.
Summer approaches . . .
Last Fall, Haverhill’s Brightside and a host of volunteers revived the Bloomfest program, planting about 2,000 daffodils at Riverside Park, and the results this past Spring were spectacular. In April, Haverhill’s Brightside then put on the Haverhill Goes Green! environmental fair at Winnekenni Castle, again with the support of dozens of volunteers.
Seeking members
Now that the hub-bub of those two big events are over, Haverhill’s Brightside is looking to expand its membership. Serving as a Brightside member requires more commitment than just volunteering for individual events. Members, under the guidance of Haverhill’s Brightside Board of Directors, are needed to help plan and execute long-term and far-reaching Brightside projects to beautify the city. If you are interested in serving your hometown in such a capacity, please join us. Simply fill out this application and e-mail it to staff@haverhillsbrightside.org. For any of you who have a financial background, the Board is also seeking someone to serve on the Board of Directors as Treasurer.
Adopt-a-Park
It’s amazing how a pretty patch of flowers on a little island in a sea of asphalt and concrete can improve your mood as you drive or walk by. Spreading that emotional response is the impetus behind our Adopt-a-Park program. There are over 70 city-owned plots of land across the city that are available to adopt, and adopters commit to landscape, plant and maintain their little park throughout the year. The city provides some assistance in the form of mulch to pretty up your beds.
There are 8 web pages here detailing the sites; their locations, availability for adoption, and a photo or two (we’re still working on getting all the pictures)—you can navigate to them via our Adopt-a-Park page.
If you live near an Adopt-a-Park site, or travel a route that takes you past one on a regular basis, please consider adopting it, raising some plants and flowers and harvesting smiles of appreciation. Just fill out this application and e-mail it to aap@haverhillsbrightside.org.
Adoption News!
Adopt-a-Park ID cards are now available for registered adopters. You can present the card for free AAP site green waste dumping in the Spring and Fall. It will also entitle you to free mulch and compost from the city yard. We hope to expand those services in the future. Go to the Adopt-a-Park page for the link and instructions to get your ID card.
Congratulations to Diane & Joe Gannuscio of Northeast Digital Imaging, Methuen, MA 01844, and Lisa Manni of Bradford on their recent adoptions! Diane and Joe will be taking on the care of site E-17, the island at Homestead St. & Amesbury Rd., and Lisa is taking charge of the TD BankNorth & Rt 125 Ward Hill site. Thank you very much, folks!