Interact Club's Volunteer Clean-Up Gives Back to Lindy

The Lindenhurst Interact Club dedicated their time to making the Home of the Bulldogs a better place this fall by volunteering to clean up homeowner's yards.

The club, made up of young community members and associated with the Lindenhurst Rotary Club, teamed up with Camp Bulldog to start their project this past spring.

The "Beautification After Sandy" project attracted over 200 volunteers, including members of the Gilford, New York Rotary and Interact clubs, on their first weekend kick-off.

On that first weekend, the club's beautification project reportedly helped cleanup around 70 properties in Lindenhurst with volunteers raking and bagging leaves across the area. Interact helped the homeowners, many of whom were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy only a year before, by donating a new rake, planter with new flowering plants and a gift card to ACE Hardware stores.

In the following weeks, the number reached roughly 175 homes helped by the club.

Their hard work could pay off big time for the group, which is in the running for a $500 prize from the Interact-Rotary International Video Contest for 2013.

Among only a group of 19 other clubs, the group would be able to put the grand prize money earned back into the area and help more families in Lindenhurst.

The voting contest, open to all Facebook users, is running through December 19 at 1 p.m. To help the volunteers, you can vote for them on the Interact Facebook page here.