Brennan Donovan Nora Donovan, and their mother Trisha Albate, worked together to help clean up the park. They use the park and wanted to do their part to help keep it clean.
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Mercedes Mendez, Lynne Espiritu with her daughters Samantha and Caitlin volunteered to help clean the shore of the pond, pick up pieces of garbage, bottles, papers, and other debris.
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Jim Brown picked garbage and trash out of the pond.
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Diana Ihmann, has volunteered to help clean Hempstead Lake State Park for many years.
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William Brown, Park Manager, and his wife Christin Brown, signed people in to volunteer for I Love My Park Day.
Over the weekend, residents showed just how much they cared about Hempstead Lake State Park on I Love My Parks Day on May 7.
People from all over came to Hempstead Lake to help clean up the park. They worked with park officials and employees to make sure the Northwest Pond was pristine.