Selfless community service: I salute Joe Agg

Joe Agg cleaning up the ravines

These days it is very rare to find individuals who are truly selfless, who work for the benefit of all without expectations of any return. When I do meet such people, a great sense of hope fills me and inspires me. Joe Agg is one such person that I have had the honor to meet recently.

A 70 year old environmentalist and member of the Richmond Hill Naturists, Joe has been working tirelessly for years to cleanup up the creeks, trails and forests in Richmond Hill with small groups of volunteers.

Joe was the first one to arrive and support us at our cleanup drive last week with the required equipment. We cleaned up a large area around the lake. Now as I go on my regular walks along the trails and see it clean and green, I feel happy to have played a small part in this. My husband and I joined Joe again last saturday and cleaned up another entrance to the trail that starts at Toporowski Avenue. Joe taught me a valuable lesson that day, that if we don't like the litter around us, there is no shame in bending over to pick it up. Read more about Joe Agg's service to our community. ( Richmond Hill man continues creek cleaning,
Resident gets knee-deep in the muck to clean our creeks )

What is the point of our lives if we are of service to none?? The purpose of our lives is to love and serve and experience the joy of service!! 

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore