To the Editor:

My husband and I moved to Otisfield in 1979. It did not take us long to realize that we had moved to a town where family, friends, and community mattered – exactly what we were looking for.

This community spirit was on full display last Saturday with well over 60 enthusiastic and hardworking volunteers participating in our roadside clean-up. The clean-up was sponsored by the Otisfield Conservation Committee and supported by our Town Selectmen. I would like to thank the members of the Otisfield Social Outreach Committee (Community Lunch Group) who fed us a great lunch after we finished the clean-up. We were tired and hungry and we greatly appreciated their hospitality. Thank you, Garry Dyer, Mike Thorne, and Jim Howard. We appreciate all your work picking up the tires, car parts, and heavy trash bags. Also, we are grateful for the support of the Otisfield Fire Department and, of course, all our fabulous volunteers – age two to eighty-six! Our town looks wonderful.

We hope that all townspeople remember that both the Otisfield Transfer Station and Casco Bulky Waste have helpful and welcoming staff and that is where our trash is meant to end up – not on the side of our roads or in our beautiful streams, brooks, ponds, and lakes. We can all take a lesson from our youngest volunteer Eli (age 2) who asked “Auntie, why do people throw their trash? That’s rude to nature.” It is indeed, Eli, and thank you for helping nature.

Maureen Mooney-Howard

Chair

Otisfield Conservation Committee

Otisfield