Dartmouth Community Rallies Together to Clean Up Cornell Pond
Photo Courtesy of Gloria Bancroft
When I heard through the local grapevine that volunteers were needed to rake leaves, remove fallen sticks and debris, pick up trash and restore the playground area, I was all in. Although I don t reside in Dartmouth, I still value the SouthCoast area and will always lend a hand whenever I can.
Alongside me were Dartmouth residents, Westport Troop 2019, Gloria Bancroft (Dartmouth Town Finance Committee/Soil Conservationist), and the Cornell Pond Advisory Committee.
Photo Courtesy of Gloria Bancroft
The overgrowth along the river was suffocating vital plants. Eco-life was cut back and removed from the area and all the broken glass from beer bottles and plastic nip containers were tossed in a garbage bag. Volunteers worked feverishly for two hours to clear out the playground area and remove years of leaves and mulch that was killing the grassy area.
ST. ALBANS Gloria “Dine” Bancroft, 80, died Dec. 15, 2020, due to COVID-19, surrounded by the nurses from St. Albans Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. Born on Jan. 29, 1940, in Berlin, Vermont, she grew up in Plainfield, Vermont, where she attended school. Upon graduating high school, she worked for National Life from 1959-1964. She worked as a dispatcher for the State of Vermont and also went on narcotics investigations from 1964-1969. From 1969-1971, Gloria worked as a corrections officer, in charge of female prisoners and supervised female corrections officers. In 1971, she became a police officer for Burlington City and in 1973, she was promoted as the first female detective for the Burlington Police Department. In 1976, she moved to Florida to work as a private investigator. She also carried the torch by filing an equal pay for equal work suit against the City of Burlington in 1975 and won. Her career also includes Digital and a small business owner of a store/deli at Be