(PHOTO: Friends of Rye Town Park board members Jamie Jensen and Diana Page with Save the Sound volunteers Katherine Doherty and her daughter Kayla, who helped to organize the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Kayla wants to be a marine biologist and is currently doing a LI Sound water research intensive program.)
Sixty volunteers showed up this past Sunday, April 21st to clean up Oakland Beach at Rye Town Park in honor of Earth Day. Volunteers came from down the street and as far away as Greenwich, Stamford and White Plains. Groups including Rye Sustainability, the Girl Scouts and Daisies, a contingent from the German International School in White Plains and the cold plunger Bad Sisters group all lent their hands.
Park Director Russ Gold estimates 50 gallons of trash was removed from the beach which had washed up over the winter months. This included lots of smaller items including plastic straws, bottle caps, ribbons, candy wrappers, styrofoam, vaping pens, cigarette butts, broken plastic toys and other materials.
(PHOTO: Rye Town Park Director Russ Gold and volunteer Margaret Mead at the Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: A volunteer at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Bad sisters Trish O’Gorman and Sian Roath at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024 (before their cold plunge).)(PHOTO: Friends of Rye Town Park Board member Chris Meier at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Jaime and Todd Ulrich and their kids at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Volunteers at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Volunteers at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Friends of Rye Town Park Board member Steve Vasko his and family at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: Young volunteers at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)(PHOTO: People cleaning machines at the Rye Town Park Oakland Beach cleanup on Sunday, April 21, 2024.)
