The celebration started from the Mayor of
Alytus Vytautas Kirkliauskas speech. The Director of Urban Economy Department
Ceslovas Merzvinskas talked about our town environment and how we should protect
it. In the square of the town
company Dzutra presented a machine which picks up rubbish. Another company Ordo
presented a car for street cleaning.
Alytus youth was very creative. They made a
house from needless boxes and placed it in the middle of the square. Inside of
this house there was a smaller wooden house in which some youngsters were
sitting and singing, playing guitars and a flute. Other youngsters were acting
like "garbage children". Most of their clothing was made from plastic sticks and
useless clothes. They were making a big noise by playing the instruments from
kitchen. Such rampage of the youth evoked very strong and different emotions for
the people who came to see the celebration. Some of them were astonished and some of them
were excited or nicely surprised. It was made live statues by the PIPE'rs. The
youngsters were pretending dustmen and workers of the earth. This celebration of
the Earth Day will be unforgettable because inspite the rain everybody in the
square were having great time.

