As if Saturday’s summerlike temperatures weren’t enough reason to venture outside, a full slate of community events in Indianapolis provided some extra incentive.

Among the biggest events: the Earth Day Indiana Festival on the American Legion Mall, the 10th annual Rebuilding Together Indianapolis on the Near Southside and the Great Indy Cleanup in neighborhoods throughout Marion County.

“It does all seem to tie together today,” said Jackie Carey, a Rebuilding volunteer from Macy’s Foundation. “I just enjoy having this opportunity to help.”

Volunteers from business and civic groups traveled to Fountain Square, Fletcher Place and surrounding neighborhoods to work on 20 homes. Rebuilding Together helps a different neighborhood every year and does a variety of tasks, including carpentry, plumbing, electrical projects and cleaning, sprucing up and weatherizing homes.

Meanwhile, in various neighborhoods throughout the city, residents donned work gloves and filled garbage bags with litter in the Great Indy Cleanup.

Carole Veatch and her 3-year-old daughter, Becca, joined more than 50 volunteers in their Herron-Morton neighborhood on the Near Northside.

Mother and daughter spent a few hours in their neighborhood park on Alabama Street helping volunteers plant flowers and trees, build bird feeders and rain barrels and replenish mulch around the playground before heading back home to pick up litter on their block.

“I feel it is important to get my daughter out here to understand the importance of keeping your neighborhood clean,” Veatch said. “We have a duty to leave a good planet for our children and their children.”

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc. coordinated the event and provided volunteers with gloves, garbage bags, banners and beverages.

Tom and Nancy Hartmann were among the Herron-Morton residents helping to wheel mulch from a nearby lot into the neighborhood park. The Hartmanns said they returned to the city three years ago from the suburbs because of the pride people showed in the older neighborhoods.

“We like to see this city, and particularly this neighborhood, neat and clean, and we don’t mind doing our part by putting a little sweat equity into it,” Tom Hartmann said.