Regional Environmental Council
July 20, 2007

Check out the YouthGROW blog

The new YouthGROW season got off to a great start on June 26. Keep up with all their activities by visiting their blog, which is being put together by the YouthGROW Journalism team.

Just click here!

NEW: REC can accept online donations
REC can now accept donations with your credit card online! Just go to the home page of our website and follow the links. Or click right here:

Donations go through JustGive, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase charitable giving by connecting people with the charities and causes they care most about.  

Trash Action Group Awarded $500

REC and the Main South Trash Action neighborhood group have been awarded a $500 grant from Friends of Worcester Neighborhoods to put a trash barrel on Main Street (at a location between King and Oread Streets) as part of a campaign to clean up the neighborhood. We hope it will be the first of several trash barrels to be installed along Main Street at other key locations.

Lead Poisoning Prevention Awareness Week

Massachusetts Lead Poisoning Prevention Awareness Week, which began on July 14 and comes to a close on July 21 has been a great success in Worcester. The Worcester Lead Action Collaborative, coordinated by Steve Fischer of the REC, pulled together many events, including: a packed Lead Poisoning Prevention Fair; a press conference that included a Mayoral proclamation; and outreach events at the Home Depot, Public Library, Elm Park, and the Greendale Mall.

The events got great press coverage. Click on these links to read more:

Channel 3 coverage of the Lead Fair

T&G story on the Roberts family and their ordeal with lead poisoning

Thank you to everyone who supported this effort to get the word out about lead poisoning prevention!

Main South's Bulk Waste Pickup Day a success!

Taking bulk waste (i.e., old sofas, mattresses, appliances, etc.) to the DPW's residential dropoff site on Millbury Street can be difficult without a car as well as costly. With this in mind, the environmental justice  partnership of REC, Clark University, Family Health Center, and Worcester Youth Center organized a bulk waste collection day in the Main South Neighborhood.

With help from Waste Management, Worcester’s DPW, the Main South CDC, the YMCA, and a committed group of local volunteers, we organized and carried out a pilot bulk waste collection on June 9 that removed several tons of bulk waste from neighborhood homes. Success!
A big THANKS to everyone who has helped to make our programs bigger and better.
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