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Volunteers Clean Up Downtown

A record number of volunteers cleaned up downtown Bethlehem in honor of Earth Day

Posted by Susan Koomar (Editor), April 28, 2012 at 06:18 pm

A record number of volunteers - including a team of local editors from Patch - spent Saturday morning in downtown Bethlehem picking up trash and planting flowers.

The project was part of the Downtown Bethlehem Association's Earth Day celebration. Close to 70 people participated.

Volunteers assembled at Main and Broad Streets around 9 a.m. supplied breakfast featuring fresh fruit and home-baked goods.

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Steve Schmitt April 29, 2012 at 12:28 pm

Thank you volunteers. Downtown Bethlehem looks wonderful. Let's celebrate Earth day every day and pick up a few pieces of litter daily.

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Dana Grubb April 29, 2012 at 11:47 pm

Yes, thank you to volunteers everywhere for cleaning up our parks, waterways, streets and highways. What makes all of this ironic is nearly all of the debris and litter that they clean up was put their deliberately. It seems one part of the population uses the environment as their personal waste can, and the other half empties it. What's wrong with that picture?

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An interested bystander May 6, 2013 at 05:29 pm

Just pointing out facts. You are also forgetting that money withdrawn from an IRA or 401k (except…Read More Roth IRAs) are taxed at withdrawal. I prefer my government not punish good financial actions. Sorry it's a quirk of mine, I think we should reward those who make good decisions, not punish them.

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Tony Simek May 6, 2013 at 06:35 pm

I agree with you Interested Bystander. Problem is that if you punish the ones making the bad…Read More decisions, the Federal government will be punished all the time. In the current climate, poor decision making gets rewarded by voters. The middle class doesn't have a chance.

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