Volunteers clean, remember volunteer, during local cleanup

Kim Cripps was at the nerve center for Havre Pride activities Saturday morning.

That's not unusual. For more than two decades, she's been organizing the effort to clean up the city twice a year - at springtime and the weekend before Festival Days.

Community groups were invited to fan out throughout the community and pick a summer's worth of trash that had accumulated in open spaces, across fields and on streets throughout Havre.

They were supposed to come between 9 a.m. and noon, but the first volunteers showed up at about 8:30 a.m.

People picked up bags and other supplies from Cripps' headqua...