Some participants in the Town of Sweden Adopt-A-Trail program during the end-of-season "sweep" October 28: Pictured front row, l to r: Dick Rizzo, Carol Rizzo, Linda Hollenbeck, MaryLynn Siciliano, Marilyn Colby, Bill Fitzgerald; back row, Bill Clifford, district superintendent for the Canal Corporation, Cindy Graves, Andrea Perry, David Hollenbeck and Kathy Dixon.

Canal 'clean sweep' completed

The Adopt-A-Trail program for the Town of Sweden completed its fifth season on October 28 with an end-of–season sweep of the Erie Canal towpath in the town. The volunteers do litter control and light maintenance of the trail. Eight organizations each are responsible for one section of the trail; the same organizations have served all five years.

The high point of the season was the receipt by the Brockport Garden Club of the "outstanding Adopt-A-Trail group" award for 2005 from the New York State Canal Corporation. Since then, the Garden Club has taken responsibility for planting and, in cooperation with the Canalfront Greeters, maintaining flowers along the south bank of the canal between Park Avenue and Main Street.

In addition to the Garden Club, the participating organizations are the Brockport History Club, the Brockport Federal Credit Union, the Brockport High School girls swim team, the First Presbyterian Church, the Coffee Cup Campers, the Middle School Retirees and the Walks and Talks.

November 5, 2006