Sedona AZ (June 10, 2013) – In the past 60 days, trash filled Adopt-A-Highway blue bags for the following groups are being spotted.
The virtual town of Folksville USA recognizes the groups below as the best Adopt-A-Highway coordinated effort in Arizona and the nation! They are part of a larger 40 group effort that picks up litter across 50 consecutive miles of highway in the Verde Valley.
At the end of 2013, the official ADOT Adopt-A-Highway “Activity Reports” will confirm which of these groups will receive the Diamond, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Lead Awards for individual and group efforts based on frequency of anti litter events and a bonus for the highest number of bags of litter collected:
Highway 89A Jerome * Cottonwood * Sedona
Sedona Verde Valley Fire Fighters MP 356-357
Immaculate Conception Parish MP 357-358
Knights of Columbus Council #2493 MP 358-359
Verde Valley Cyclists Coalition MP 361-362
Sedona Pines LLC MP 364-365
Sedona Pines Resort MP 365-366
Highway 260 Cottonwood * Camp Verde
Verde Village Property Owners Association MP 207–208
Verde Village Property Owners Association MP 208–209
American Legion Family Post #25 MP 214-215
Highlands Resort at Verde Ridge MP 217-218
Camp Verde Fire District MP 218-219
Boy Scout Troop 7193 MP 222-223
Verde Marshall’s Office MP 223-224
Verde Valley Archaeology Center MP 225-226
Communities in the Verde Valley, will you continue to allow your communities to be trashed by those dumping litter and garbage alongside and on highways and byways? Will you do nothing? Will you continue to ignore it?
Will parents, schools, businesses and community leaders finally engage in an effort to promote aggressive and frequent anti-littering and recycling messages through local media organizations that must hear from you?
Will the media interview Adopt-A-Highway groups in your area and invite them to educate the public through problem-solution exchanges?
Contact Gary Chamberlain, Folksville USA Point Man at FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com, and or the many Adopt-A-Highway groups in the Verde Valley, Dewey, Prescott Valley and Prescott areas that do and are making a difference!
The photograph is from a two mile section of AZ State Highway 89A cleaned by Immaculate Conception Parish and Knights of Columbus Council in Cottonwood, Arizona.
The residents of the Verde Valley should thank them and all the Adopt-A-Highway groups that are making a difference!
The residents of the Verde Valley should say NO THANKS to the many that contributed to the contents of the bags each and every day. Litter destroys our fragile desert eco-system, impacts negatively our communities and businesses, keeps tourists from returning or wanting to stay, and endangers our desert wildlife!
Give a care! Teach and preach anti-litter! Volunteers needed!
This SedonaEye.com article written and submitted by Gary Chamberlain, FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com.
Traveling from Sedona to Cottonwood and back today, I saw the Colonel and Gary Chamberlain collecting trash on SR89A. Thanks Gary!