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Volunteer Project Aims to Clean Up Village

Cary needs residents help beautifying the village for the upcoming spring and summer.

Cary Pride Day is a community-wide volunteer spring clean-up project. During Cary Pride Day, volunteers work to beautify Cary by working on various projects to enhance the community.

These projects aim to have improve Cary’s aesthetic appeal.

Cary Pride Day projects include projects include cleaning up accumulated trash along power lines, the Cary Cemetery and the downtown area, as well as various landscaping projects throughout the community.

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The contributes projects as well, including pulling out invasive species and planting native species in Cary parks and clearing brush on trails.

Tim Boivin, director of Cary Pride Day, said he is expecting between 150 and 200 volunteers.

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Boivin said the Cary Village Board approached him eight years ago and asked him to organize the event.

“The first time we had 30 people—maybe 40,” Boivin said.

Six years ago, the Cary-Grove track and field teams decided to make Cary Pride Day part of their community service requirement. This tripled the size of the event.

“I really give credit to Layne Holter and Mark Anderson, the Cary-Grove track and field coaches, for insisting their athletes give back," Boivin said. "It makes a huge difference.”

 Last year, local Girl Scout troops from the agreed to take part in Cary Pride Day.

“If the Girl Scouts show up en masse we will have double the amount of volunteers,” Boivin said.

Boivin said that the effect of Cary Pride Day is subtle but noticeable.

“If you drive around Cary the day before the event and the day after the event, you definitely notice," he said.

Cary Pride Day aims to provide nice, clean facilities for the spring and summer and has been cited with a Governor’s Hometown Award for Excellence.

To participate, “You just have to show up at on Saturday morning,” Boivin said. The event runs from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 16.

A complimentary lunch of pizza and drinks will be provided immediately following the event.

For more information, contact Tim Boivin at 847-516-2863 or by e-mail at tim.boivin@techimage.com.

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