Dover Pride Clean Up Day is May 7

posted on: 5/2/2016

One of Dover Main Street’s flagship activities, Dover Pride Clean Up Day, will be held on Saturday, May 7, beginning at 8 a.m. and concluding by noon.

The Dover Pride Clean Up event starts with a pancake breakfast served by the Kiwanis Club at 8 a.m. in the Mill Courtyard, 421 Central Ave. From there, hundreds of volunteers, with help from the City's of Dover's Community Services Department, will rake, prune, sweep, mulch, weed, paint and plant their way through multiple sites in the downtown area.

Wentworth Greenhouses donates plants for the planters in the downtown core, which volunteers will help install. The event finishes with a pizza lunch back at the Mill Courtyard sponsored by Kendall Pond Pizza. Bottled water and soda is provided by Seacoast Coca-Cola.

Clean Up Day is an opportunity for community members to give a few hours of time by contributing some sweat equity to make Dover look its best for the coming tourist season. This civic volunteer effort is an important aspect to help keep the downtown area clean and beautiful throughout the spring and summer, and also provides cost savings to the City of Dover.

As always, community volunteers are the key to the success of the project. Individuals, groups, or families can spend just an hour, or come for the entire morning. Locations will be set up by Dover Main Street. Groups or organizations wishing to volunteer for a specific site should can register here.

All participants should bring home gardening supplies, if available, including gloves, brooms, rakes, and other gardening hand tools they may have from home. Other supplies are available on site at the mill courtyard and at the clean-up locations.

Dover Pride Clean Up Day is underwritten by Kennebunk Savings Bank and sponsored by Relyco, TrainRiders Northeast, DF Richard, Federal Savings Bank and Holy Rosary Credit Union.

For more information, click here, or call 603-740-6435.