Terrace gets a trim and a cleanup

As you drive around the Terrace, you'll note things are a lot neater.

That's because a small but energetic band of Terrace residents took things in hand Saturday and, after several rainouts, carried off the annual Terrace Cleanup Day.

With the unstoppable Harvey Bailey and Tom Chichester leading the way -- without these guys the Terrace wouldn't be in half as good a shape as it is, April Dowd and Kay Duclos hand-scrubbed the mailbox gazebo, a huge job in itself; Bill Dowd buzz-cut the shrubs around the gazebo, then joined Harvey to trim the shrubs in the island near the gazebo, much to the consternation of the feathered residents of No. 36.

Harvey, Tom and Lorraine Bailey worked the entranceways to the Terrace, trimming, raking and fertilizing.

Manning, or womanning as the case may be, the rakes and cleanup were Ginny Chichester, Betty Looney, Russ Golino, Jack Coyne, Julia Austin, and Tom and Jack hauled away the debris.

We had 17 people signed up to help for the first cleanup date, but that was rained out along with the subsequent date. Today, we had a mere 11 out of a Terrace population of more than 50 people.

Here's a camera's-eye view of what went on today. Missing from view is Bill Dowd who took the photos.