Make 2024 the Year You Rediscover
Friends of Wollaston Beach
With the help of our community partners and volunteers, the 2024 Season has been great! We love our beach and it’s clear you do too! We have had a great many activities for kids of all ages and we are excited that so many hundreds of people got to enjoy this amazing resource.
As we wrap up the summer season, we look forward to hearing from you about how you enjoyed (or didn’t) our activities, as well as ideas for next year.
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We started the year off with two fabulous organized Spring Cleanups!
ParkServe Day – Despite torrential downpours, 65 adults and 3 children blanketed the beach filling bags of trash. We found lots of unusual debris, including very large pieces of timber (missing your dock anybody??) and a huge tire. Kudos to the amazing cadets from the North Quincy High School Jr. ROTC, and their leader, M.Sgt. John Delorenzo, who managed to move the heavy items off the beach. This year we welcomed many new volunteers, including members of the HR Department of the Revere Hotel in Boston who came from near and far to join us. And an especial thanks to the children and their parents who shared a lesson that we are never too young (or too old) to be good stewards of this wonderful resource. We are grateful.
Cleaner/Greener - A total of 43 volunteers came out to Caddy Park (across from the Beach) on a nice spring day, including a group from Stop & Shop, Southern Artery. Once again, the North Quincy High School Jr. ROTC were key to the success of this event which is part of the citywide cleanup day. And we were happy to see both new and veteran crews from the neighborhood going straight to work cleaning up the area.
If you aren’t able to make an organized cleanup, we encourage you to grab a bag and pick up trash any time so we can continue to protect our wildlife and humans!