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Rusty's Morningstar Ranch

Sedona AZ (October 15, 2010)Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch (RMR) of Cottonwood, Arizona is honored to have been offered the opportunity to advance the efforts of the local Road Warriors highway litter recovery movement started in February of 2009 by its founders, says RMR director, Marla Guerrero.

The Road Warriors effort to restore the beauty to Arizona highways and communities by collecting and recycling highway litter at no cost to taxpayers benefits all. The Road Warrior litter abatement campaign began in the small rural community of Cornville, Arizona with only eight concerned citizens and has evolved into well-attended and supported local trash abatement events.

RMR became interested in participating in the Road Warrior effort in order to provide additional activities for one of its autistic ranchers, a young man who loves collecting garbage and recycling its contents.

In August, approximately fifty bags of garbage were collected by Tire Pro Automotive and delivered to Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch. Ranchers began to sort the bags of garbage by separating materials that can be recycled from those that cannot. Every Friday, ranchers pack up the recycling and stop by the local restaurant Grasshopper Grill to collect its glass bottles, and then deliver everything to the Cornville drop-off site of Sedona Recycles.

To date, ranchers have sorted sixty six alcoholic beverage glass bottles, one hundred and eighty eight plastic bottles, one hundred and thirty five alcoholic beverage cans, two hundred thirty one other cans, four tubs of paper and ten tubs of newspaper from the garbage collected in August by anti-litter volunteers. The benefits are two-fold for Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch:  recycled trash does not end up in Arizona landfills and an autistic rancher benefits from a trash for cash activity that motivates him and others.

Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch will assume responsibility for the Road Warrior effort beginning November 20, 2010 with the full support of two of the original founders of the anti-litter program. The November 20 anti-litter effort will be focused on the Scenic Highway 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona.

RMR will partner with ADOT Adopt-A-Highway milepost permittees between Cottonwood and Sedona. Cottonwood businesses Randall’s Restaurant, Home Depot, Reese and Sons, Taylor and Sons, and Jackson Hewitt along with Cornville businesses Windmill Gardens, Grasshopper Grill, Jody White of Northern Arizona Digging Services LLC, and Hosch Service will be supporting the November 20, 2010 clean up. Tire Pro Automotive of Camp Verde and Sedona will continue its long time support. Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch expects other local businesses and individuals that supported the Road Warriors 2009 and 2010 efforts to continue supporting its Road Warrior effort.

The new Sedona Times Publishing and its renamed SedonaEye.com online news and interactive views (formerly SedonaTimes.com), Verde Independent, Yavapai Broadcasting, Folksville USA News and others will continue to cover RMR anti-litter efforts. Follow the Sedona Eye for the latest Folksville USA, Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch and Road Warrior news and Calendar of Event event listings.

If you would like to support Rusty’s Morningstar Ranch and the ranchers with autism who sort the litter bags, click on the Donate Now button on its website at www.rmr.org or contact 928-634-4784. Marla Guerrero, Rusty’s executive director, would like the public to remember “There is no donation too big or too small.”

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