Westport Cleans Up Nicely With Team C.O.W. Program
The town of Westport is looking a little cleaner these days after a large group of volunteers took to the streets to clean up the roadside trash.
There was a sea of neon green as 200 volunteers marched across the town in their Team C.O.W volunteer shirts. It stands for Clean Our Westport , Team Leader Martin Costa said. I reached out to Selectman Steve Ouellette three years ago to get the green light on Team C.O.W. and as the years rolled on, we saw more and more volunteers showing up. The first year we had 25, the second year we had 50, and finally we had about 200 just this past Saturday.
WESTPORT If lifelong resident Martin Costa can help it, there will be tons of green COW t-shirts all over Westport on May 22.
But these t-shirts won’t be used to celebrate the town’s agricultural heritage. They instead will stand for a growing movement Clean Our Westport safety t-shirts for those who will be cleaning up litter.
Costa, the retired owner of Westport Camping Grounds, has always had a love for the outdoors and spent decades cleaning up the 33-acre Westport Camping Grounds on Old County Road.
“The snow has melted and in my excitement to get outdoors, I am disgusted by all the street-side litter that was hiding under the snow,” Costa said in a recent Facebook post. “It’s time for another Westport street clean up day.”