Volunteers throughout the Capital Region took time out on Earth Day to participate in a host of activities designed to help take care of our natural resources. Posted on April 22, 2008.
Jennifer Massey of Saratoga Associates moves with her rake along a berm that will be turned into a walking path at at the DesRoches Nature Preserve in the town of Galway. Employees from Saratoga Associates, a landscape architecture, engineering, planning and architectural firm, spent Earth Day helping volunteers from Saratoga P.L.A.N. clear a nature path at the former tree farm.
Scotia-Glenville High School student Mandy Mabee, 16, left, laughs as she is helped into a lawn and leaf bag by Melissa Kuhl, 17, of Duanesburg High School, center, and Paige Lewis, 17, of Shenendehowa High School along the fitness trail at Bower Park in the town of Colonie Tuesday. BOCES students in the Lodging and Management program and Albany Marriott employees spent the morning cleaning up the trail in honor of Earth Day.
Duanesburg High School student Melissa Kuhl, 17, right, and Scotia-Glenville High School student Stephen Zuravin, 18, work together raking leaves from the fitness trail at Bower Park in the town of Colonie Tuesday.
Naseyah Dix, 6, right, helps Chris Rodriguez, 11, work on an Earth Day project at Yates Magnet School in Schenectady Tuesday. The students were decorating paper bags to encourage people to choose paper over plastic.