Volunteers from across the Coastal Bend gathered at the Old Collins Cemetery in Alice on Thursday, October. 30, to clean up years of neglect and overgrown vegetation that had consumed the historic burial ground.

About 20 community members brought lawn mowers, weed eaters and other tools to restore dignity to the cemetery, where household trash had been dumped and graves were hidden beneath tall grass.

The City of Alice removed the dumped household trash before volunteers began their work.

Gilbert Garcia, who has participated in several cemetery cleanups, said people should be ashamed for dumping trash at any cemetery.

"I'd assume that most people that are here - especially the older dated stones - that their relatives are gone as well. So, if we can't be here doing it. Really there's n

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