Wachusett Greenways

November 2002 Activities

Connecting the Wachusett Community with Trails and Greenways 

 Chipping brush at the Springdale Mill Village - November 23, 2002             

        

                      Chipping brush at the Springdale Mill residential area.        Lunch break with hot homemade soup

 

            

We also chipped brush at the Springdale Mill Site near the rail trail.       
                                                                                                          Pauline Cloutier and Viv Ouellette with their chuck wagon
         
                                                          CHAMPION CHIPPERS CHALLENGE CHILL

    HOLDEN, Saturday, 23 November: Twenty hardy Greenways folks fed the rented chipper all day today, making mincemeat out of the piled brush at the Springdale Mill along the Mass Central Rail Trail and up the hill at the Springdale Mill tenement area. Early on, it looked like a bad day: the chipper was late, cold and drizzle persisted, some willing workers wandered around looking for the group, and only a few people appeared in evidence. Some folks wisely went back home for warmer wear. But by 8:45, we were
going strong, people appeared out of the woods, Dick Spaulding maneuvered the chipper along the paths, and the stuff disappeared into the woods.
    Dick and Ruth Spaulding and their two granddaughters, Alissa and Amy, Pauline Cloutier, Eric DeRivera, Saw-wizard Rocky Goodreau,  Sue Hall, Paul Miller, Stan Miller and son Craig Miller, Tom Pitman, Greg Molesky, Hank Ouellette, Ranay Swanson, energetic first-time trail worker, Gary Tuthill, and Ed Yaglou, who has probably forgotten one or two more names.. all of these worked like dogs from 8:45 through 4:00. They were kept going by our chuck wagon crew, Pauline Cloutier with hot and cold drinks and the ever-present fig newtons, and Vivian Ouellette who produced hot veggie soup at noon. Many thanks to all. The Springdale Mill Historic Site looks far more attractive, and we await the arrival of the first class interpretive signs. And, after a whole day of greeting the public at the Sterling Cider Mill, Colleen Abrams joined in the last two hours' nastiest work."