Rotary Common Clean Up
“I drag her out into the yard a lot,” said her mom, Becky, by way of explanation. “She’s seen this before.”
The Kodak moment came in the middle of Saturday’s large-scale spring clean-up and spruce-up of Rotary Common, one of Nashua’s newest greenspaces born in 2005 behind the concerted efforts – and a sizeable donation – by the Nashua Rotary Club.
The common, on the east side of Main Street just south of Lake, was developed on a portion of the 1.8-acre site formerly occupied by the International Paper Box Machine Company, a leading 20th-century Nashua industry founded by the late Elie Labombarde.
The common is bordered on the south by Salmon Brook and its historic 1848 stone arch bridge, natural aesthetics that Rotarians would showcase should the common be expanded in the future.
Saturday’s spruce-up was a collaborative of individuals and organizations, from Rotary families to members of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua, and to a pair of veteran city Park Department employees whose expertise – and their loaned tools, wheelbarrows and trucks – came in handy.
“The most important thing for us is to come here regularly and to do this spring clean-up every year,” said Rotary president Karen Keegan, speaking of her fellow Rotarians.