Green Up Panton!!
May 5, 2018
Welcome to the Panton Green Up web page! Please help us make this Panton’s most successful Green Up Day ever! Join us in this annual community effort to clean up our roadsides and enhance the extraordinary natural beauty of our great little town. Please mark Saturday, May 5, Green Up Day on your calendar.
IF YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE CALL COORDINATOR: Louise Giovanella, 759-2529, or louiseg@gmavt.net, to let me know what location you will clean up so that I can get an idea which areas are covered and which are not. If your road has already been picked up by another volunteer, let me know and I will gladly direct you to another location that needs attention in town.
NEW THIS YEAR, 2018; Join friends and neighbors at the town office between 9am and 11am on Green Up Day for some Vt. Coffee Company coffee and Teresa Smith’s delicious homemade donuts. This will be a great opportunity for an informal conversation with members of our select board, who will be hosting the event.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BEFORE YOU GO!!!
GREEN UP BAGS AND GLOVES ARE AVAILABLE NOW at the Town Office and at the Town Garage.
ALL YOUNG CHILDREN SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED AND CAREFULLY SUPERVISED BY A RESPONSIBLE ADULT. They should avoid busy roads and walk only on the left side of the road facing traffic if possible.
DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR GATHERING TRASH. Wear brightly colored clothing including long pants and shirts, sensible shoes or boots, and protective gloves.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR TICKS, which are already active and may be as small as the head of a pin, if they are deer ticks. Tuck in cuffs to protect against them. They may be present on the ground, in refuse, grass or on branches. Check carefully for their presence on yourself and your children when you return home.
GREEN UP WASTE COLLECTED IN THE GREEN UP BAGS can be left at the roadside, but please avoid leaving it anywhere that is unsafe to stop the town truck such as at a blind spot or a tight curve. If there are several bags in a given area, please put them in one spot to minimize truck stops. Our Road Foreman, Rick Cloutier, will collect it. You can also drop your bags at the town garage.
DO NOT PICK UP DEAD ANIMALS; call the coordinator if you encounter any.
ITEMS SUCH AS TIRES, appliances and scrap metal should not placed in the Green Up bags, but should be kept separate, brought to the town garage, or put on top of or beside any collection bags.
If any SITES OF ILLEGAL DUMPING are discovered, please call a coordinator and document with pictures if possible.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, SUCH AS BATTERIES, SOLVENTS, ACIDS, SALTS, OR DISCARDED NEEDLES MAY BE FOUND. DO NOT PICK THEM UP ! CALL THE COORDINATOR. State police have cautioned that anyone seeing a bottle (it can be plastic)with a liquid other than what should be in there, a plastic coke bottle,especially one containing a white pasty substance or anything else that may be foreign, should not touch it. Inform the coordinator and call the state police. Any such bottle with a vent or tube sticking out the top of it should also be avoided and the police called.
Trash is limited to waste picked up on the roadsides and does NOT include household trash or cleanout debris.
IF YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE CALL COORDINATOR: Louise Giovanella, 759-2529, or louiseg@gmavt.net, to let me know what location you will clean up so that I can get an idea which areas are covered and which are not. If your road has already been picked up by another volunteer, let me know and I will gladly direct you to another location that needs attention in town.
NEW THIS YEAR, 2018; Join friends and neighbors at the town office between 9am and 11am on Green Up Day for some Vt. Coffee Company coffee and Teresa Smith’s delicious homemade donuts. This will be a great opportunity for an informal conversation with members of our select board, who will be hosting the event.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BEFORE YOU GO!!!
GREEN UP BAGS AND GLOVES ARE AVAILABLE NOW at the Town Office and at the Town Garage.
ALL YOUNG CHILDREN SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED AND CAREFULLY SUPERVISED BY A RESPONSIBLE ADULT. They should avoid busy roads and walk only on the left side of the road facing traffic if possible.
DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR GATHERING TRASH. Wear brightly colored clothing including long pants and shirts, sensible shoes or boots, and protective gloves.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR TICKS, which are already active and may be as small as the head of a pin, if they are deer ticks. Tuck in cuffs to protect against them. They may be present on the ground, in refuse, grass or on branches. Check carefully for their presence on yourself and your children when you return home.
GREEN UP WASTE COLLECTED IN THE GREEN UP BAGS can be left at the roadside, but please avoid leaving it anywhere that is unsafe to stop the town truck such as at a blind spot or a tight curve. If there are several bags in a given area, please put them in one spot to minimize truck stops. Our Road Foreman, Rick Cloutier, will collect it. You can also drop your bags at the town garage.
DO NOT PICK UP DEAD ANIMALS; call the coordinator if you encounter any.
ITEMS SUCH AS TIRES, appliances and scrap metal should not placed in the Green Up bags, but should be kept separate, brought to the town garage, or put on top of or beside any collection bags.
If any SITES OF ILLEGAL DUMPING are discovered, please call a coordinator and document with pictures if possible.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, SUCH AS BATTERIES, SOLVENTS, ACIDS, SALTS, OR DISCARDED NEEDLES MAY BE FOUND. DO NOT PICK THEM UP ! CALL THE COORDINATOR. State police have cautioned that anyone seeing a bottle (it can be plastic)with a liquid other than what should be in there, a plastic coke bottle,especially one containing a white pasty substance or anything else that may be foreign, should not touch it. Inform the coordinator and call the state police. Any such bottle with a vent or tube sticking out the top of it should also be avoided and the police called.
Trash is limited to waste picked up on the roadsides and does NOT include household trash or cleanout debris.
Here's a set of before and after images that Mary Metcalf took of her cleanup along Lake Street on April 22, 2015. Thank you Mary!
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