Parson’s Road was the target of Keep Bermuda Beautiful’s latest neighbourhood clean-up, and 20 people came out on Saturday, January 15 from 9am to 12 noon. Youngsters as well as adults volunteered their time to remove unsightly debris from the area south of Pembroke Marsh, collecting a total of 25 bags of regular trash and eight bags of recyclables as well as a number of bulky items.The volunteers started in the playground area then moved west along North Street. By noon they had both sides of the road spotless from TCD to Glebe Road, including Jubilee Park.KBB executive director, Anne Hyde, noted how impressed she was by how many moms and dads joined their sons and daughters who were working to gain credit for community service. “It was a good opportunity for family time and doing something together outdoors,” she observed.Anxious to spread the word about environmental maintenance, Ms Hyde was happy to be interviewed earlier in the week by Nikita Robinson on the Ladies Room at HOTT 107.5. “Nikita,” Ms Hyde noted, “is teaching her young sons the importance of volunteering. Both boys are students at Harrington Sound Primary. Ajani is in P2 and Caelen is in P1.”In addition to the bagged trash, there were large, bulky items discarded within a mile of Tynes Bay Waste Disposal Depot.“It was the big bulky items that were the bulk (pun intended) of the clean-up,” Ms Hyde noted. “The students found the front end of a car in the reeds next to the marsh at the northern side of the park. The license plate was still attached! They found car doors, wooden pallets, a bed frame, a bus pole, three pedal bikes, a motorbike, a grocery store shopping cart, car batteries, a very large saucepan, metal pipes, carpeting, two car tires and a broken pop-up tent.”Students came from a variety of schools, including nearby Dellwood Middle School, attended by M3 student Yabin Jones, who with his mother, helped clean the neighbourhood around his school. Yabin noted of some of his discoveries: “In an abandoned car, we found stinky stuff.”When asked why it is important to hold these litter clean-ups, Yabin said: “To keep the Island beautiful. Litter pollutes the environment.”“I found a bus pole!” Liam Nash, Somersfield M5 student, exclaimed.“It was fun. I’d come again,” declared Taj Whaley, a P7 student at Warwick Academy, who attended with his cousin Anthony. “We found the back of a car with the license plate on it over by the marsh.”Of the need to keep Bermuda beautiful, Taj said: “We learned about that in health class at school.”l For information about future clean-ups, check out the KBB website www.kbb.bm