Volunteers help clean up Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo

Volunteers transforming cemetery into wildlife sanctuary

A group of volunteers is helping transform a cemetery into a wildlife sanctuary.

Volunteers help clean up Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly 20 volunteers went to work to clean and preserve headstones at Kalamazoo's Riverside Cemetery on Saturday. Organizers say that Riverside is Kalamazoo’s first public cemetery. It opened in the 1800s.  Volunteers opened the day of work at the cemetery’s oldest section, tackling multiple challenges, including hillsides that have moved over the years and knocked over headstones.  Older headstones also have a tendency…