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Arizona highway trash

Sedona AZ (November 6, 2012) – In a Letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, a Cornville Arizona taxpayer reminds the Arizona Department of Transportation that mowing Arizona highways to help its litter clean-up volunteers is a responsibility and not an option:

Dear Don,

There will be many litter clean up volunteers out on the highway the Saturday before, the Saturday after, and the Saturday of November 17, 2012 and they all want the highway mowed so they can safely and effectively pick up trash!

If ADOT’s mowing doesn’t start and finish this week (November 9), I have been asked by a large number of people to provide the contact emails and phone numbers of ADOT personnel (and the Governors office) so that they can be contacted directly.

Arizona’s Adopt-A-Highway groups deserve ADOT and state government support! ADOT must make our highways safer so that the Adopt-A-Highway volunteers can honor their 3X per year ADOT mandated cleaning of highways!

It will be my intent to provide all contact information for ADOT Director Halikowski, ADOT Maintenance Supervisors, ADOT Engineers, Arizona Adopt-A-Highway Coordinator and yourself if Arizona’s anti-litter volunteers do not receive your support.

Sedona Arizona Verde School students volunteer to pick up trash

We, the taxpayers, pay your salaries to do a job and we expect you to do it. This is the kindest reminder of what Arizona taxpayers expect of ADOT that can be offered.

It should be very clear by now that Arizona has highly engaged and effective Adopt-A-Highway Groups, groups that the Arizona Department of Transportation should want to support and be proud of their effort.

This email is going out to many folks including the media who are tired of seeing the trash on the highways, folks who fully understand the negative impact of trash on the Arizona economy.  Trash discourages tourism, new residents, and businesses that bring jobs and it impacts the health, safety and well-being of our fragile desert ecosystem.

ADOT, please mow. If you want to contact your representatives and ask ADOT to mow the highways, email me at FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com for information.

Gary Chamberlain
Cornville AZ
FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com
 

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10 Comments

  1. Dear Arizonans,

    Just so you know, I get as tired writing about our highway litter as you get reading about it.

    The best way to reduce my stories is to reduce the highway litter that seems to magically appear on our highways by those who say they care about our states beauty, want tourism, new residents and businesses that bring jobs.

    Through a concentrated effort to raise the awareness, education and participation in solving this highway litter issue we can reduce the amount of trash and reduce the FVUSA stories that appear before you.

    The trash-litter issue must be taught in the home, schools and businesses if we are ever going to make a difference!

    Until the trash on our highways disappears, my helper, Colonel Clint E. Wood, and I will be out there picking it up and writing about it.

    The solution to our community litter issue will come from “We the people.”

    Gary Chamberlain
    “Point Man”
    FVUSA

  2. Don’t listen to the people complaining because they are the problem and not the solution. God bless the USA.

  3. Folksville USA would like to thank Homes & Land Magazine and High Pointe Publishing for providing the advertising to Folksville USA in exchange for bags of trash picked up on Highway 89A and Highway 69.

    Their participation in the effort to restore the beauty to Arizona’s highways and advance opportunities for our youth-base groups to earn donations by participating in Adopt-A-Highway events in Arizona and nationwide will benefit all communities.

    Teaching, learning and earning are discovered through participating in a Adopt-A-Highway event.

    Please consider advertising or services provided by High Pointe Publishing, Homes & Land and LOL-Laughing Out Loud.

    High Pointe Publishing may be reached at (928) 717-0100 and they are located in Prescott, AZ.

    Join Folksville USA on November 17. Your volunteer time is appreciated. Contact me with questions.

    Gary Chamberlain
    folksvilleusa@gmail.com
    “Point Man” & Owner FVUSA

  4. Ten thousand loud roaring cheers to Folksville USA leader Gary Chamberlain and all the anti litter warriors doing there best to keep AZ highways clean of litter ! Mr Chamberlain walks the walk ( the litter clean up walk ) while others do the talk which is rather easy to complain ! Three simple questions need asked 1 ) Do you love America 2 ) Are you honest 3 ) what are you doing about littered filth ?

    Keep up the great work Mr Chamberlain & Company, proud Americans indeed yu all are ! LK

  5. Gary says:

    This story is now relevant after hundreds of reflectors found on the Arizona Veterans Highway (I-17) –
    https://sedonaeye.com/adot-contractor-debris-is-litter

    How are your tax dollars being spent?

    Will keep you posted.

    Gary Chamberlain

  6. Dear “Don’t Trash Arizona” in Maricopa County – Thanks for email. Education in the homes, businesses and schools is a must! This education must occur frequently or those of us that care will always be picking up someone else’s mess (CRAP). See http://www.SedonaEye.com for anti litter success stories. There are plenty of BagReadyJobs for our youth. How about encouraging their community and civic activism while paying them $10 a bag for picking up trash? It’s honest and good work that teaches social responsibility and has an environmental impact. No age limit, folks, so how about you moms and dads and grandpas and grandmas and aunties and uncles and good neighbors working side by side with the kids and show them by example how to take care of our fragile desert ecosystem and communities? I’ll be glad to help. Contact me for details. Gary Chamberlain 928-202-1186 folksvilleusa@gmail.com

  7. Gary says:

    Age Limit, There is an age limit for the Arizona Adopt-A-Highway Program to participate. Participants must be at least 12 years of age and not over 200 years of age. You must also have the reasoning skills to determine which of the two ages stated is incorrect to participate.

  8. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Donald Cassano wrote:

    Gary, it has been reported that you were seen working in the median on SR 89A, MP 357 to 359, on January 11.

    I just want to remind you that work in the medians is reserved for ADOT employees or contractors and the general public is not permitted to be there due to significant safety related issues.

    Don

    Don Cassano,
    Ombudsman
    Arizona Department of Transportation
    206 S. 17th Ave., Room 192
    Phoenix, AZ 85007
    Office 602-712-4371
    Mobile 602-377-3450
    Fax 602-712-3232
    Email dcassano@azdot.gov

  9. Don,

    I’m a Arizona resident and taxpayer that safely picks up trash in the median and on the highway between Cottonwood and Sedona plus Cottonwood and Camp Verde.

    No one else cleans the median, to include ADOT. In three days I recovered 36 bags of trash in 5 miles.

    Could you send me the document that says that it is illegal for me to do this? If this is illegal I will write a letter to Governor Brewer and Director Halikowski to get permission for me, not anyone else to be trained and approved to clean our medians. I will want to include proof of breaking the law in my letter to those contacted.

    PS There are still hundreds of abandon(ed) reflectors on the highway between MP-355 to MP-369. Some of these abandon(ed) reflectors are in the asphalt piles that were left by the ADOT contractor that also remains on the highway.

    Solution, maybe the ADOT contractor that is responsible for these reflectors would be interested in hiring me to pick them up …… just a suggestion.

    I did pick up few of these reflectors and will mail them to you.

    Thanks.
    Gary
    Gary Chamberlain, Folksville USA
    folksvilleusa@gmail.com

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