Pitch in and clean up


COLEMAN STATION — Since 2002, Friends of Coleman Station has beautified the community with its regular Historic District Cleanup.

This year, the activity will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6.

"There’s so much trash there," said Lynn Mordas, the organization’s director. "Coleman Station Road is a shortcut between Millerton, Amenia and Sharon, and people just throw trash out of the window."

The Dutchess County Department of Public Works will dispose of the bags of rubbish.

"Every year, we come back through and there’s more garbage out there," Mordas said.

On both days, volunteers will meet at the Diana K. Temple Memorial Garden on the road.

The garden is named after a Wall Street businesswoman and friend of the Friends of Coleman Station. Since the garden was planted, members of the Webutuck FFA have continued to come back to Coleman Station to clean it up.

"We envisioned it as sort of being a living laboratory with lots of species," Mordas said of the garden.

In the near future the Friends will build two benches for the garden with the help of Eugene Brooks Middle School teacher John Rocconova’s class.

Herrington’s of Millerton has donated the lumber for the first bench, but The Friends of Coleman Station are still looking for a donor for the second.

"This really benefits everybody from a health and visual perspective," Mordas said Tuesday morning. "It gives people a sense of pride in the community. I don’t get the concept of throwing trash out of the window. The students are doing the community a tremendous service."


Volunteers should come to the intersection of Reagan, Sheffield Hill and Coleman Station roads and the Harlem Valley Rail Trail to be deployed along the town and county roads in the Coleman Station Historic District or to help clear flower beds in the Diana K. Temple Memorial Garden

Those who want more information about the cleanup or want to volunteer should call Mordas at 518-789-0309.

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