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ALL OUT COMMUNITY WORK DAYS WERE HELD. All ages came, armed with shovels, brooms, hammers, nails, ladders, paint scrappers & brushes,  paint, caulking guns, windows, doors, electrical wiring supplies, wheelbarrows, covered dishes & ENERGY.  

               

 

                               

Farmers came with heavy equipment—tractors, scoops, post hole diggers, stock trucks, end loaders, and bulldozers. More than 40 loads of debris & riff raff were hauled out of Main street.

 

       

 

Eyesore lots filled with debris were transformed into a magical recreational-park  complex right in the heart of downtown Melrose.

 

BEFORE AFTER

Volunteers shoveled out the debris inside the buildings, replaced windows & doors, cleaned & scrubbed the buildings, & painted every store.

                

 

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