Spring cleanup day draws record 140 volunteers
Boardwalk, Deal Lake shoreline, and Veterans Park all covered in a single Saturday morning
A home in the Allenhurst Residential Historic District — one of the neighborhoods tidied up by volunteers on the borough-wide spring cleanup day. — Photo by Apc106, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A record 140 volunteers turned out Saturday morning for the Borough of Allenhurst's annual spring cleanup — the largest turnout since the volunteer program began in 2011. Crews covered the boardwalk, the Deal Lake shoreline, Veterans Park, and the Corlies Avenue business district in about three hours.
By the numbers
- 140 volunteers (previous record: 112, in 2019)
- 38 families with children participating
- 84 bags of debris collected and sorted
- 12 bags of recyclable material separated on-site
- 1 unbroken lawn chair, hauled back out of Deal Lake
Public Works crews picked up the bagged debris the same afternoon. The Borough's Recreation Commission supplied coffee, cider donuts from the Corlies Avenue bakery, and cleanup gloves donated by the Allenhurst Volunteer Fire Company.
Organizers thanked volunteers at the closing gathering in Veterans Park, noting the turnout of families with children as the defining image of this year's cleanup.
The Borough's next volunteer event, the Memorial Day Flag Planting at Veterans Park, is scheduled for Saturday, May 23 at 9:00 AM.
Eleanor Brinton covers Allenhurst history, borough government, and life along Corlies Avenue. A longtime Jersey Shore resident, she writes a weekly column for The Allenhurst Press.
