100 kids from Holley tackle cleanup projects in community

Photos by Tom Rivers

HOLLEY – Holley students and community volunteers spent about four hours today working on the Vietnam War memorial outside the VFW. The group reset more than 500 bricks, removed weeds and put down a perimeter of mulch. They also painted the shells by the Vietnam War era tank.

Some of the volunteers also worked on the site for a few hours the previous week.

The Holley Interact Club and EarlyAct sent a group of about 100 students in the community to pick up litter, clean headstones at Hillside Cemetery and for the first time work on the memorial by the tank.

Gage Campbell goes underneath the tank to pick up broken glass and debris.

Jack Breuilly, center, removes bricks while Gage Campbell climbs them before they were reset. Gage’s dad Matt Campbell was able to get the lights working at the site.

The memorial initially was installed in 2009 as part of an Eagle Scout project led by Dylan Lotzow.

The volunteers wanted to get the site looking good in time for Memorial Day on May 26.

Provided photos: This group picked up trash along the canal trail and at the Holley Waterfalls.

Students also cleaned headstones at Hillside Cemetery.

Photos by Tom Rivers: Ryker Knight gets the site along the tank ready for mulch.

Logan Lane, right, and Jack Breuilly paint the top of the shells for the tank.

These Holley students yank out weeds and reset bricks along the tank.

Karri Schiavone, the Holley district superintendent, thanks the students and other volunteers for their efforts to help the community. Holley Mayor Mark Bower also said he appreciates the efforts for the group for the annual clean sweep.