It will be a day declared for the beautification of its town.

The initiative will be known as Lift Up Lehighton Day, and it will take shape on Saturday.

As it happens to be the first Saturday after Earth Day, it will be proclaimed Lift Up Lehighton Day, according to Mayor Ryan Saunders.

“It is in a sense a cleanup, and this was initiated through Lehighton’s Parks and Recreation Board, and it’s a collaboration between the mayor’s office and parks and recreation,” Saunders said. “Our idea is to get the community out sort of doing yard work, not just a cleanup day; it’s a Lift Up Day.

“It’s to spruce up your yard, rake your leaves, it’s going to be an Internet thing and we’ll have it all over Facebook. While you’re raking your yard, putting down mulch, take a picture and send it to us.”

Saunders re-emphasized that the purpose of the endeavor is to lift up, clean up and beautify the town.

“We want it to be a community project, sort of to encourage people to beautify their area, and in turn help their neighbor’s help beautify their area,” he said. “Maybe there’s an older person who can’t; maybe help them clean up their yard.”

Saunders said they’ve encouraged several special interest groups as well, and noted that the Lehighton Downtown Initiative has also given a letter of support, and are encouraging other groups, scouts, and booster clubs, to band together to pick an area and try to beautify it.

He added that the Bearded Villains will be help in one or more areas of the town, while parks and recreation will be working on Baer Memorial Park.

“It’s working, mulching, planting, and obviously if there is residual garbage, clean it up, pick it up,” Saunders said. “It’s a beautification day, an opportunity to band the community together to all get together to help beautify our town.”

Saunders said that Dr. Jordyn Miller and Rebecca Worthy from Lehighton borough council are currently sitting on parks and recreation “and they are driving this campaign very hard.

“Jordyn is a very outdoors person, a big advocate for the D&L Trail,” he said. “She has a very deep passion for nature and our community, and I think that is exemplified here in this particular campaign.”

Saunders said they are asking people to upload their pictures to Lift Up Lehighton Day on Facebook.

“Band together as a community, help your neighbors,” he said. “Take pictures of you guys working together and go to your Lift Up Lehighton Day on Facebook and post your pictures as part of the community engaging all of the beautifying of our town.”