FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WBOY) — A group of volunteers gathered Sunday in downtown Fairmont to clean up the streets.

Clean up Marion County hosted the event with the hopes of removing trash from the area before the holiday season. The program started recently with grant money, which has been used to buy equipment.

“The program that we created was a cleanup program. So we got about thirteen or fifteen hundred dollars to get the safety equipment and the cleanup equipment to basically just spin up a program to go around all the different neighborhoods throughout the county every two months, this is our third session, and clean up,” Chad Efaw, organizer of Clean up Marion County, said.

At the start of the day, volunteers met in a parking lot, took the equipment they needed, and got to work cleaning

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