Boston Shines 2007

Photos by Rose Lincoln

Harvard employees teamed up to participate in Mayor Menino's 5th annual Citywide clean up event, Boston Shines, on May 4, 2007 in Allston. Over 60 employees from different university departments and employees from Shaws Supermarket volunteered their time to clean up sites throughout the neighborhood.

William F. Smith Playground: Harvard Business School volunteers dedicated their time to cleaning up the park on Western Avenue. Tasks included picking up litter, clearing large sticks and debris along both sides of the park where trash had accumulated, raking along all the ball fields, and thinning out heavy brush along two sides of the field. 15 park benches were sanded and repainted as well as transformers, field/tool supply boxes, pipe gates and bollards.

Sorrento Park: Employees from Harvard's Allston Development Group and Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs picked up trash, swept sidewalks, raked and cleared large sticks and debris, and repainted benches, a graffiti covered transformer, and the bollards at the entrance of the park.

Lincoln Street: Volunteers from Harvard Real Estate Services worked together to improve the appearance of Lincoln Street and Everett Street after the effects of the winter season. Litter and trash pick up took place on the hill adjacent to Cambridge Street and along the ramps and walkways to the Cambridge Street bridge and overpass; along the Massachusetts Turnpike side of Lincoln Street from Everett street to Cambridge Street; and along the bottom half of Everett Street and on the embankment side of the bridge.

Everett Street: Harvard employees repainted the graffiti covered wall of the Boston Salt Yard building on Western Avenue and Everett Street.