Green Weekend filled with many fun events
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
by Stephen Pistone
GAZETTE STAFF WRITER
HAMMONTON—Hammonton
Green Weekend kicked off Saturday, Sept. 17 with a wide range of
events focused on doing good,
helping others and bringing the
community together.
The festivities began Saturday
morning with MainStreet Hammonton’s 12th annual town-wide
yard sale. The town-wide yard sale
featured more than 80 homes and
businesses, so there was no shortage of unique items and treasures
for sale.
“I think it’s growing every year.
It’s getting bigger; people are
coming out in droves. I just drove
through town, and the town is
packed: people are all over the
place. It brings out the town, and
it brings people in from other
towns to come here,” Giuseppe
Trepiccione said.
Trepiccione enjoys the townwide yard sale both as a seller and
a consumer. Sports memorabilia,
books and furniture are usually on
his shopping list, but it’s the people that really make the town-wide
yard sale special.
“You just get to see people you
haven’t seen in a while. Meet people, talking to people, just having
the interaction with people; that’s
the great thing about it,” Trepiccione said.
Following the theme of people
getting rid of unwanted materials
was the annual Recycling Central
event at the Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel Society carnival grounds
on Saturday. The event, hosted by
the Hammonton Education Foundation with major sponsor BB&T,
encourages people to drop off any
recyclable materials they have laying around, whether it be paper,
old cell phones, books, eyeglasses
and more.
A paper-shredding truck from
DocuVault Delaware Valley was
located on the fairgrounds. Cars
lined up one by one, unloading
boxes and bags full of paper to be
securely shredded and recycled.
Event organizers and participants
were very pleased with the
DiMeglio Septic,
Est. 1975 ~ DEP 03261 ~ Paul DiMeglio
turnout. Paul Pullia, Hammonton
High School senior and president
of the Hammonton Green Club,
believes the community really
buys into the importance of the
cause.
“I feel like as the years have
gone on, more and more people
understand the importance of
coming out here and giving stuff.
Instead of just tossing it, it can be
re-used and recycled, and it can
actually help the community by
not just tossing the waste. A lot of
the waste in this community just
stays near here. It doesn’t get
shipped away like a lot of the
cities,” Pullia said.
Pullia was collecting cellphones, while the Hammonton
Lions Club were beside him collecting eyeglasses, sunglasses and
hearing aids. Also recycled were
yoga mats, folding chairs, clothing, luggage and more by Migrant
Worker Outreach program director
Dory Dickson, as well as books
for a book drive organized by Atlantic County Library branch manager Kitty Ostrum.
Proceeds from Recycling Central go to the Hammonton Education Foundation, which gave
$31,464