If you drove around Westport last weekend, you may have noticed an unusual number of high school boys weeding, planting, mulching, painting, cleaning and picking up garbage.
What a bunch of SLOBs.
That’s the great acronym for Staples’ Service League Of Boys. One of the most popular clubs at the high school, it’s a way for boys — and their parents — to join together in community service.
From Friday to Sunday — during the group’s annual Service Weekend — SLOBs and their parents contributed hundreds of hours of work to our town, at 20 different venues and events.
Service Weekend began Friday afternoon. Members packed supplies to donate to the Wilbur Cross School.
It also marked the beginning of SLOBs’ relationship with the Y’s Men of Westport and Weston, and Jim Marpe’s philanthropy team.
SLOBs and Y’s men, working together.
The weekend tended Sunday evening, with a clean-up of the town’s soccer fields.
Other highlights included:
- Spring maintenance at Wakeman Town Farm
- Clean-Up Westport, with Andrew Colabella and the Westport Police union
- Trout Unlimited
- Blau Gardens clean-up
- Quest for Peace
- Person to Person
- Compo Beach clean-up
- Westport baseball fields and tennis courts
- Community Fun Day at Saugatuck Elementary School
- Minute Man 5K
- Westport Downtown Association’s spring cleaning
- Spring cleaning and mulching at A Better Chance of Westport’s Glendarcy House (thanks to a generous donation from Gault Energy)
SLOBs, at ABC’s Glendarcy House.
Staples students have busy schedules. They play sports and music; they’re in Players and clubs. They have tons of homework. Advanced Placement tests are looming. Fortnite beckons.
But there they were this past weekend: proudly wearing their SLOBs shirts, hard at work, making our town look better and contributing to our sense of community.
(You can follow Staples’ Service League of Boys’ Instagram: @shsslobs.)
Saugatuck Elementary School Fun Day.
Athletic fields cleanup.
Minute Man 5K.
With the Westport Downtown Association.
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