Walking group cleans up neighbourhood

For the fourth year in a row a local group of friends who walk together have cleaned up a road together.

This group of 15 women walk for an hour or so five days a week, said walker Terry Mactaggart, and once a year, as an Earth Day project, they work together to make the entry into the Old Town a little cleaner.

“Not all 15 show up everyday,” she said. “Very rarely do we all get together because we all have our lives too. We are very consistent though, and it's such a wonderful group of friends.”

During COVID, the group could still walk together outside and “we really supported each other. We're a very cohesive group. We usually walk for an hour and then sometimes we go back to the cafe in the Community Center, and probably talk for another hour,” said Mactaggart.

“We’ve never quite solved the world's problems,” she laughed.

This week, and for the last three years, the women, whose ages range from 60 to 80, filled several black bags with garbage found on both sides of Niagara Stone Road from Anderson Lane to Garrison Village Drive.

Everyone in the group is retired, explained Mactaggart, “but we're all involved in the community in some shape or form."