A group of homeless people who live on the banks of Lake Wilson, under the bridge at the entrance of Wahiawa, helped pull trash and debris from the lake in a cleanup last month.

The Rev. Jack Smith, pastor of the Community Church of the Nazarene in Wahiawa, helped organize the cleanup with the homeless people who attended his service for the first time about a week ago.

Smith has been working with the homeless since the beginning of the year and solicited the help of the Wahiawa Community Business Association and the state Department of Transportation.

The homeless people brought up four truckloads of trash to the roadway, where it was hauled off.

They also helped in dismantling a broken wooden structure near the banks.