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All Milford Residents and Groups Invited to Volunteer to Help Clean Our Community!

Citizens for Milford is organizing the Ninth Annual Milford Beautification Day, Milford’s annual clean-up event, which enables area residents, organizations, and businesses to work together to beautify our community by picking up trash around town. Milford Beautification Day will be held Saturday, April 27th (rain or shine) from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. All interested citizens are invited to meet with organizers anytime between those hours in the municipal parking lot across from Sacred Heart Church (5 East Main Street) to get supplies, instructions, and assignments.

Families, community groups, churches, local businesses, and teenagers who need to perform service hours are all invited to participate. Younger children are encouraged to attend as long as they are accompanied by a supervising adult. 

 I hope that many people, young and old, join us to clean up the streets of Milford on April 27. It is a great way to meet others from the community who take pride in our town. —Beautification Day Chairperson Nancy Wojick

All Beautification Day volunteers are invited to a free lunch courtesy of the Milford Lions Club, whose members will be cooking hamburgers and hot dogs on site as a thank you to everyone’s efforts to beautify our community.

To help ensure the organizers can plan the clean-up routes for volunteers, the group is asking residents to report streets and neighborhoods that are of particular concern. Residents can submit their recommendations by emailing them to CitizensforMilford@gmail.com or by messaging them to the Citizens for Milford Facebook page (@CitizensforMilford) before 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 25.

Community involvement with Beautification Day continues to grow. Citizens for Milford is sincerely grateful to the Milford Highway Department, Friends of the Milford Upper Charles Trail, Milford Lions Club, and volunteers from Milford Federal Bank who are continuing their partnership with us. In addition, Citizens for Milford is pleased to welcome volunteers from Planet Aid and the Milford Doubletree Hotel, who will be joining our clean-up efforts this year. Combined with the work of all residents who continue to volunteer on Beautification Day, this event is a true demonstration of community pride.

Questions regarding any of the Beautification Day efforts may be submitted by email to CitizensforMilford@gmail.com.

Seated at left table: Moderators Geri Eddins and Tom Harmon. Seated at right table: BOARD OF HEALTH CANDIDATES Loriann Braza and Diana Haynes.

Citizens for Milford hosted the eleventh Candidate Forum on April 13 at Milford Town Hall. The forum featured the candidates vying for positions on the Milford Board of Health and the Milford School Committee. THANK YOU to those in attendance who posed questions, as well as those who submitted questions in advance and texted, emailed and messaged via Facebook during the forum. We wish we had enough time to pose all of your outstanding questions!

We would especially like to thank each of the candidates for their willingness to serve the town of Milford by running for office and for spending time answering questions on the minds of voters. THANK YOU to MILFORD BOARD OF HEALTH CANDIDATES: Loriann Braza and Diana Haynes and MILFORD SCHOOL COMMITTEE CANDIDATES: Gregory Allegrezza, Meghan Hornberger, Christopher Wilson, and Matthew Zachilli.

We also extend A HUGE THANK YOU to our partners at Milford TV for their live coverage of the event. WATCH THE FORUM VIDEO HERE.

Candidates for Milford School Committee (L to R): Gregory Allegrezza, Matthew Zachilli, Christopher Wilson, and Meghan Hornberger.

VOTING REMINDERS

• The DEADLINE to register to vote for MILFORD’S LOCAL ELECTION is March 23rd by 5:00pm.
• The DEADLINE to apply for a Vote by Mail application for this election is March 26th by 5:00pm. (allow mailing time)
• ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, APRIL 2nd!! BE SURE TO VOTE!

*Photos By Kim Smith and Steve Eddins