The Centralia Parks Department, in partnership with Cooks Hill Community Church, is organizing a work party to clean up the historic Greenwood Memorial Park cemetery on Saturday, May 4.
Participants will clean the cemetery’s vaults, trim the grass and pull weeds.
Centralia Deputy City Manager and Parks Director Amy Buckler announced the cleanup event during the Centralia City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 23.
Work party participants will meet at 9 a.m. next weekend at Greenwood Memorial Park, located at 1803 Van Wormer St. in Centralia. The work is expected to continue until around 12:30 p.m.
“We’re going to be working with Cooks Hill Community Church, but we invite all other community members to come down with your weed-eaters, your edgers, your 5-gallon buckets,” Buckler said. “... Help us spruce up the cemetery in time for Memorial Day.”
Those with other landscaping equipment are asked to bring it if possible. The desired equipment includes leaf blowers, flat blade shovels, scrapers, pruners, wheelbarrows and scrub brushes.
Volunteers must also bring their own vision and hearing protection, along with gloves.
For more information, email Buckler at ABuckler@cityofcentralia.com.
