Lindy Cares Clean-Up Sweeps Up the Streets

The Lindenhurst Cares Coalition's "Clean Sweep" went off without a hitch on Sunday, even as cloudy skies loomed overhead.

Over 100 volunteers, including everyone from children to adults and village trustees to this Patch editor, came out to help in the effort to clean-up the village's streets.

The large attending crowd was split into groups and sent out along streets on and within a few blocks of Wellwood Avenue and Hoffman Avenue, clearing everything from wrappers to cigarette butts and broken glass in an effort to keep the village cleaner and safer. 

Village deputy mayor Kevin McCaffrey, the Republican candidate for Suffolk County Legislator, and village trustees Michael Lavorata and Maryanne Weckerlie, along with Tom Dolan, board member of the Lindenhurst Bulldogs Football & Cheerleading League and Democratic candidate for legislator, were all out among the groups helping clear the rubbish from our village's streets.

The trustees noted their eyes were opened to some of the issues facing the village, especially when used syringes, drug paraphernalia and even a bag of "strawberry quick," otherwise known as pink crystal meth, were found by volunteers along their way.

Suffolk County Police were called to the group's meeting place at Village Square Park to help safely dispose of the drugs and foreign objects.