By the Hull Beautification Committee

Mark your calendar and join your neighbors in a townwide Hulluva Cleanup Day on Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (rain date is Sunday, April 27). If we all pitch in, we can make a Hulluva difference!

The Hull Beautification Committee will provide brightly colored trash bags and gloves – all we ask is that you bring your Hull spirit. The HBC has been canvassing the town and spreading the word to our neighbors, business owners, and various organizations asking for their participation. Earth Day is on April 22 and Hull can do its part by cleaning up around our neighborhoods and sweeping up in front of our businesses. Summer is around the corner, let’s make Hull shine, not only for our community, but for visitors to our seaside town.

**CLEAN SWEEP.** On Sunday, about a dozen volunteers descended on the Hull Redevelopment Authority property for a spring cleanup. It’s the first of several beautification efforts happening this month. Shown taking a break from the cleanup (and the elements) are, from left, Donna Applebaum, Judy Dorner, HRA member Adrienne Paquin, and Jean Paquin. [Skip Tull photo]

Stop by N Street on Saturday and pick up your colored trash bags and gloves. Hull’s DPW will gladly pick up the colored trash bags from designated areas later in the day. If you would like to organize a cleanup team, the Beautification Committee will suggest an area where you can roll up your sleeves and show some Hull pride!

It’s easy – clean up trash and debris around your neighborhood; sweep your sidewalk and clean out your pots and planter boxes in front of your business. We hope this event will be an incentive for our community to keep Hull looking beautiful throughout the year.

The HBC is not the only group making Hull beautiful. A recent article about the Lillian M. Jacobs School beach cleanup is what Hull beautification is all about. Under the direction of science teacher Heather Weber and parent volunteer and artist Jackie Kilroe Ranney, students collected more than 40 bags of trash stretching from A Street beach to XYZ beach. Once the trash was sorted and documented, it became art! Art teachers Emily Pestone and Kate Cicalese worked with fifth- and sixth-graders to create an art installation of sea creatures that hang in the school lobby. Beautifully done, Lillian Jacobs students!

We may not be making art on April 26, but we will be making the town’s first Hulluva Cleanup Day a community success. Please join in!

For more information and to register, please email: hullbeautificationcommittee@gmail.com. You can also visit us on Facebook.

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