Last updated: June 15, 2020
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Portraits of Acadia: Irene Schlaefer
![Irene Schlaefer, maintenance worker Woman wearing blue work gloves holds rags and a spray bottle](/articles/images/Irene_960.jpg?maxwidth=1300&autorotate=false)
Yehyun Kim, Friends of Acadia
I was very excited when I got this job because since I was a kid, I always loved this park. You come here on field trips when you're a kid and you're in just awe.
Everyone that comes into the park eventually will use the bathroom. They're going to stop there. I would like to make sure that it's clean and that it has toilet paper. I clean the bathrooms as if my grandchildren are going to go in there, or my relative was going to go in there, or somebody I knew. I clean the bathrooms like what I would want them to experience it.
– Irene Schlaefer, maintenance worker
![Trash A pile of gathered trash and debris on a patch of green grass](/articles/images/Trash_960.jpg?maxwidth=1300&maxheight=1300&autorotate=false)
Yehyun Kim, Friends of Acadia
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