The Sandwich Council on Aging and Sandwich Public Schools will collaborate to host the first district-wide yard cleanup for older adults on Saturday and Sunday, November 22 and 23.

Forestdale School physical education teacher and co-organizer Kristin MacDonald said she first arranged the cleanup with the Council on Aging about five years ago, when she was a 7Cs teacher at Oak Ridge School. MacDonald said she contacted Susan Marancik, the Sandwich Council on Aging senior and community services director, about how Oak Ridge students and families could do something helpful for the community.

MacDonald said the yard cleanup has only grown since then, as it now involves the three public schools in town and had its largest turnout last year, with more than 100 volunteers.

“We have some of the

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