Hip Hip Hooray for Earth Day at the YMCA
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The Gleason Family YMCA is gearing up for an Earth Day event featuring many interactive displays involving all things nature.
“We’ve got 15 different local organizations attending with activities, information and interactive displays,” said YMCA Membership Engagement Coordinator Cathy Longfield. “It’s for all ages, it’s not just for kids.”
Some of the organizations coming include Mass Audubon, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Mass Fish and Wildlife as well as many more.
“A park ranger from Myles Standish State Forest is coming with trail maps and pelts and he’s going to talk about a lot,” she said.
Other organizations will give attendees info on farming, wildlife conservation, recycling and all things nature.
“We’ve got a fellow from the Bay End Farm coming who one year brought dirt that we could dig through and find worms and bugs, it was great,” Longfield added. “He also takes invasive vines and makes art out of them.”
Additionally Longfield said a PhD student from Umass Amherst studying the water quality of Buzzards Bay will be there looking for people to participate in their water quality study.
The event will be held Tuesday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the YMCA located at 33 Charge Pond Road.
The event is free and open to people of all ages.