It’s time to get out there and clean up Adirondack area towns for the upcoming tourist season. This year, Community Pride Day will occur on Wednesday, May 3. Residents throughout the area will take to the streets with gloves and garbage bags in hand to rid lawns and roadways of detritus left over from fall and winter. All volunteers participating will receive a free shirt to wear with pride while they clean up the streets. The back of these shirts lists all 126 sponsors of this year’s Community Pride Day.

Starting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3 volunteers cleaning up in the Inlet/Eagle Bay area can pick up shirts, trash bags, and rubber gloves at the Inlet Information Office or at the Eagle Bay Fire Hall. This group of volunteers will be treated to a lunch at the Eagle Bay Fire Hall starting at noon. Please contact the Inlet Information Office at (315) 357-5501 or info@inletny.com for more information. Those in the Old Forge/Thendara area can pick up their supplies at the Town of Webb Visitor’s Information Center and will also be treated to lunch. Please contact the Town of Webb Visitor’s Information Center at (315) 369-6983 for more information.

Community Pride Day in Old Forge. Photo provided by Inlet Tourism Director Adele Burnett.

To find out specifics in other participating areas, please contact the following: 

Raquette Lake – Kat at katybug182@hotmail.com

Long Lake – Long Lake Parks & Tourism at (518) 624-3077 or longlakeevents@gmail.com

Indian Lake or Blue Mountain Lake – Christine Pouch at (518) 648-5828 or development@indianlakeadk.com

Speculator/Lake Pleasant/Morehouse/Wells – Steve Stofelano at (518) 921-1309 or sastofelanojr@gmail.com

Arietta/Piseco – Christy at (518) 548-3078 or christywilt@yahoo.com

Photo at top: Community Pride Day volunteers at Adirondack Experience. Photo provided by Inlet Tourism Director Adele Burnett.