A winter's worth of trash appears along every road and moose trail. On the first Saturday in May, the whole town turns out for clean-up day. Starting at 8 a.m., men, women, and children fill up trash bags and set them at the side of the road. At 2 p.m. the garbage trucks start picking up full bags. Local businesses donate the bags and whatever else is needed to make clean-up day a success.
Children impatiently wait for the last day of school.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks graduates another class of students. The first tour buses traverse the town. Camera-studded tourists gawk at the sights. Cyclists invade the bike paths while the snowmobiles are stowed for the summer. Canadian geese will stop over at Creamer's Field on their flight north.