Daily plog: Earth advocates make trash pickup, community spruce-up, part of routine

JANESVILLE 鈥� In gardening gloves, pruning shears in hand, Val Wyman cleared weeds Tuesday from a small triangular flower bed tucked in a corner of a downtown 糖心Vlog传媒 alley.

Wyman disposed of an abandoned bird鈥檚 nest 鈥� with eggs 鈥� she found in the raised flower bed on Doty Mill Alley.

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