TRR photo by Jill Padua Assembled Litterpluck trash is pictured May 5 near Little Lake Erie. (Click for larger image)

Community living at its best

NARROWSBURG — The judges wore nose glasses and the winners were chosen by applause-o-meters. And by the end of the day, there were awards all around at Litterpluck 2001.

The Narrowsburg Central School group picked up two top honors of Most Unusual Trash found, a Republican Watchman newspaper plate, and Most Useful Trash found, a mailbox. The Narrowsburg Girl Scouts received Most Recyclable Award for two bags of returnable beer bottles. The Vintage Trash category and the 2001 Litterpluck Champ Award went to the team of Anthony Babb, Jason Mercado, Barbara Terry and Luis Vasquez of the Delaware Valley Job Corps and Evan and Jill Padua of Narrowsburg. Forty other people received Awards of Thanks for participating in Litterpluck 2001 in Narrowsburg.

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The event officially began the Narrowsburg Beautification Group’s bid for Best Community Beautification project in a Sullivan County contest being held by Sullivan Renaissance. The winning community will receive a $20,000 beautification grant, with the runner up receiving one for $10,000.