Join us this year on April 10th (9am to 3 pm) for Wayland Cleans Up! the 5th year of our effort to beautify Wayland in the spring. Also attend the Earth Day celebration on Sunday (11am to 2 pm) at the Town Building sponosred by the schools' Green Team and the WHS Environmental Club.
Tony "Iron Eyes" Cody was most famous for his "crying Indian" role in the "Keep America Beautiful" Public Service Announcement (PSA) in the early 1970s, an ecology commercial in which an Indian (Cody) sheds a tear after some trash is thrown from a speeding car and lands at his feet. The announcer is William Conrad, of Bullwinkle and Cannon fame, who memorably declares: "People start pollution; people can stop it."
FEBRUARY 16, 2010 – WAYLAND, MA – Plans are in the works to hold the annual roadside litter cleanup on April 10th, 2010 in conjunction with other events in Wayland in honor of the 40th Earth Day.
You may recall the awesome and powerful anti-litter PSA from the 1970s with the teary-eyed native American indian (play video above) that left an indelible mark on anyone from that era.
Well, it's still a crying shame how much litter ends up on Wayland roadways where bikers and walkers easily see it an well-up in tears for the shame.
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