Thank you to all our supporters for making our 15th Annual Spicket River Cleanup a great success. We had 480 volunteers, many of them youth representing local schools, and others from local businesses and community organizations. 

Thank you to our sponsors:  Enel Green Power North America, the City of Lawrence, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Woodard & Curran, Winn Companies, Lawrence General Hospital, Rumbo, Covanta Energy, Royal Screen Printing, and Farmer Dave's.

With the water levels low in the Spicket our cleaning efforts had many rewards. We removed 250 tires, which is enough for 62 cars or 13 semi-trailer trucks! Additionally, we estimate that volunteers cleared 10 tons of debris from the river, river banks and adjacent parks. We are immensely proud of the accomplishments of our volunteers and staff. 

We love  fresh, local food so much, why just celebrate on one day? Food Day is a time to come together to celebrate food, resolve to make changes in our own diets, and to take action to push for improved food policies. At Groundwork Lawrence, we plan to celebrate food day all week at our local farmers markets on Wednesday, October 26; Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29.  

We were recently awarded a grant from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute, UMass Lowell to reduce the use of toxics in our community.  With this grant we will be able to share with the community non-toxic household cleaners, and distribute 1650 samples. We are excited to be in a unique position to do this in a number of ways such as through our farmers market and through local bodegas who are committed to having a display with samples and information for customers.