Last week was Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week and as part of the event communities across the country spent Saturday cleaning up their communities for Clean Up Day.
A number of communities in Northland took part. A clean up and commemorative planting day was held at Fishbone Park in Ōtangarei.
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The Northern Advocate supports the community clean up across the district and our photographer John Stone went along on Saturday to capture the efforts at Fishbone Park.