Photo: Mary Leach
Kristene Whitehouse was walking with her dog when someone put a message in her mailbox: "Clean up your yard leaves!!" Born with several missing fingers, vision, and acuity problems, and on a fixed income, she felt demeaned and powerless. Whitehouse, 53, who has owned her home in Billerica, Mass., US, for 17 years, shared the note with a Facebook group called Billerica Residents. Cheryl Wesinger went over the next day with a rake and lawn mower and filled up about 10 bags of leaves. But when a family illness meant she couldn't continue, she contacted Mary Leach, who runs the Beautify Billerica Facebook group. That weekend, a dozen people arrived with rakes and leaf blowers and filled 79 bags with leaves. They also trimmed the hedges. Whitehouse said she is so touched by what her neighbors did for her.
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