Chelsea, MA Unsorted, 28 Apr 2023

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From YouTube: Earth Day Clean Up Day 2023

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City of Chelsea, GreenRoots

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Good morning, everybody and welcome to our annual Earth Day celebration.

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So I'm Rosie and I'm with green roots- and this is our.

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Ruth and a number of our green Roots staff members and board members who are in with you all thank you again for joining green roots in the city of Chelsea on this lovely Earth Day morning.

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Want to give a special thank you to a few folks who have made this day possible, first and foremost, the city of Chelsea and the DPW crew, who have been working around the clock this week.

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For folks who don't know today is our last day of tree planting this week we have planted after today, we will have planted 50 trees in Chelsea. Just this week,.

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I also want to thank the mwra if you haven't yet gotten your water bottle, please grab a water bottle and fill it up at the mwra water tank here. Thank you to the mwra for bringing that water tank out for us yeah. That's great.

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Yeah m-w-r-a hours.

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I also want to thank the folks at blueprint, medicine who have paid for and sponsored our lunch today. Thank you blueprint, medicine and for being out here today.

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Awesome and okay, so here are the here's the deal for today, so we're gonna. Take a big group photo I'm gonna, send you out to different locations. Bianca's gonna come up and talk about each of the locations that we have today. If you have a specific location that you really want to work at or a clean, that's not on our list. You can take that location and just let us know and we'll pick up the trash at the end of the day.

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And then around 12 o'clock lunch is at Port Park. So that's the park. That's on Marginal Street on the Chelsea Creek 99 Marginal Street lunch will be there. There will also be another water truck and sandwiches and drinks and other stuff for lunch. So please join us around 12 between 12 and 12 30 for lunch at Port, Park.

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One last thing: I just want to thank the city councilors, who are here every year, uh Leah Robinson and your Lopez and school committee members Roberto Jimenez. Thank you for being out here and joining us year after year to clean up Chelsea. Thank you represented.

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Island and River El Rio Island Priyanka.

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In Creekside Commons park, El parque Creekside Commons in.

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Chelsea High School Devin.

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And Eden Street Addison Street, okay,.

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um Okay, all right, so what I was just saying is that we are having um um all of us are leading different sites, we're going to hold up pieces of paper showing where that we're going so I'm going to 212 Congress Avenue, which is a site that we're turning into a park with the city um and we're going to be cleaning up there. That's a good site to bring kids, it's walking distance from Port Park. So if you want to bring kids I'm good to bring your kids to um well, don't leave them with me.

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That's not what I meant, but the next one is Island and river with Priyanka and then um Caroline here is going to be going to the Chelsea Community Garden. That's another great one, to bring kids to they're, going to be doing planting and clean up some general beautification.

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And then we have Mill Creek with Lila and that'll, be over at uh meeting at Creekside Commons park and then uh we'll be going to Chelsea High School with Devin and we'll be planting trees at Eden and Addison with Ruth.

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um And then we would love someone from the city to also lead a group going to 88 Clinton Street, um and that is: are there any look at Ibrahim, my previous Greenery might be the person? Would you raise your hands.

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So he'll be going to 88 Clinton Street, that's another uh cleanup location. um Okay! Does that sound good? Is everyone ready? No we're gonna take.

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Folks, before you head out make sure you have fun.

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We're here at the corner of Congress and Highland, uh doing uh the cleanup for Earth Day with green Roots. uh We have this. Is the area that's going to eventually become a park once it gets uh once it gets redone we're really excited to start the process. Getting it cleaned up. um We got a bunch of different groups, we got I think like five or six different groups across the city. Yes,.

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Hey guys, how are you happy Earth Day? um We are here at Fort, Park, with green roots in the community and planting trees and how many trees did we plant? What about three or four hard work.

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About three or four hundred right.

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Lot of plants yeah, we need volunteers; now we beautified all the streets and all the neighborhoods and shout out to DPW and Kate and.

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Rosie and her crew and just.

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The community we're here doing what we do. They did a great job so right on Chelsea all right.

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Paninis and tomato mozzarella, Panini.

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We are hungry, hi.

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I'm David I'm with the Chelsea tree board here in Chelsea Massachusetts, and we're here today to have visibility to the residents of Chelsea that they can adopt their own tree. The city will plant the tree for you, assuming that it doesn't interfere with any utility lines. All you have to do is, let us know your address and we will work for the DPW to make that happen. So folks can stop by today and share their address or their email and we'll take it from there.

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Celebrating a Earth Day, we went out on different street different areas of Chelsea to clean up now we're gonna foreign over here at the park, and it was a great event. There was a lot of trash to pick up. We encouraged people not to throw trash on the street. Please thank you.

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Just want to thank everybody for another successful, Earth Day. This is probably our 25th or 26th year doing this, and we had an incredible turnout, both in Chelsea and East Boston.

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We cleaned up over 12 locations picked up dozens and dozens of bags of trash, and we couldn't have done it without all of the volunteers who came out to make today so successful and the City of Chelsea went on to give a special thank you to the DPW crew, who are here with us year after year, and every day this week, they've been all planting trees with us, so I want to thank Jimmy, Karen and all of the guys at the DPW, the city of Chelsea and so many volunteers.

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Thank you again and hit us up on green Roots like us on Facebook. Come on out to our next event, foreign.

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