{"id":53925,"date":"2025-04-27T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=53925"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T00:08:52","slug":"photos-video-getting-the-trash-out-of-the-sackville-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=53925","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS\/VIDEO: Getting the trash out of the Sackville River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;237&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE<\/strong>: More than 50 people from the Sackville area community turned out to help the Sackville Rivers Association get the trash out of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the Sackville Greenway, the volunteers from the community &#8212; young and old- gathered and picked up a lot of the garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community cleanup is an annual event and sadly the pile of garbage picked up seems to get bigger each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is our video story from the event, where we also speak with organizers form the Sackville Rivers Association. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Billy Gillis, former councillor Paul Russell, and former MLA Steve Craig were among those who were also at the cleanup helping out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video story sponsored by Boston Pizza Lower Sackville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video by Matt Dagley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VIDEO STORY: Community comes out for cleanup of Sackville River\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZukCk8jIRLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;148&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/063-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53931\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A rusted barrell is carried up from the river. (Dagley Media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/091-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53933\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Dagley Media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/036-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53929\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of the garbage found in the Sackville Rivers cleanup. (Dagley media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/082-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53932\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pat Healey interviews SRA past president Walter Reagan. (Dagley Media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/073-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53930\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Dagley Media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/10-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53934\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Group shot of the volunteers with all the trash that they collected from the river and trail system. (Dagley Media photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;206&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;237&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] LOWER SACKVILLE: More than 50 people from the Sackville area community turned out to help the Sackville Rivers Association get the trash out of the river. Along the Sackville Greenway, the volunteers from the community &#8212; young and old- gathered and picked up a lot of the garbage. The community cleanup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[7365,3785,2143,7231,13,2670,1812,8236,8237],"class_list":["post-53925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-billy-gillis","tag-community-cleanup","tag-earth-day","tag-little-sackville-river","tag-lower-sackville","tag-paul-russell","tag-sackville-river","tag-sackville-rivers-association","tag-sra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}