Over a dozen tried and true community volunteers came out in the damp to plant flower beds, dig holes for shrubs at the “Stonehenge” sitting park at Washington and Atherton streets, and to clean up the Peace Park at School and Washington streets on Saturday during the annual Boston Shines in Egleston Square.
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Cleaning up Jamaica Street. Credit: Richard Heath
For thirty years Michael Reiskind and Bob McDonnell have organized Boston Shines in Jamaica Plain. That’s three mayors’, five governors’ and five presidents’ worth of neighborhood cleanups. And of course, they’ve had lots of help.
It’s finally feeling like spring out there, and as many of us begin to clean up our homes and yards, the city is spearheading its own special spring cleanup in Jamaica Plain this weekend.
