Cornville Road Warriors cleaning up Arizona
Re: Will Governor Brewer and ADOT empower the residents of the Verde Valley and Arizona?
Dear Governor Brewer,
A few days ago one of our local football teams contacted me about claiming one or more of seven $100 pledges donated by local residents and businesses for picking up trash and working with our local ADOT Adopt-A-Highway Groups (ADOT AAHG).
Folksville USA volunteers on the job
Our Folksville USA (FVUSA) group has asked ADOT, several times, to mow the grass on Highway 260 and prune back the brush from guardrails, highway signs and reflectors for the safety of our ADOT Adopt-A-Highway groups and our local cyclists.
ADOT has been unable or unwilling to meet our needs.
FVUSA has several ADOT AAH Groups and residents of the community who are willing to cut the brush back from the guardrails – so we can honor our commitment to safely and effective clean our ADOT AAHG sections of highway to attract tourists, new residents and new businesses that may bring jobs to the Verde Valley and Arizona.
FVUSA and our ADOT AAH Groups would like your assistance in helping us get ADOT to assist our efforts by mowing and cutting back the brush.
If ADOT can’t or won’t provide this support then we need your blessing to allow our residents to cut the brush and use this effort as a fund raising activity for our local clubs and organizations.
Folksville USA RVRE kids pitch in to clean Arizona highways
As previously stated in prior correspondence to your office, if ADOT can’t secure our highways for our ADOT AAH Group efforts then we become as aggravated at them as you are at the Federal Government for not securing our borders.
With or without ADOTs blessing, there are several of us including many veterans in the area who will prune this brush if ADOT doesn’t before our August 18, 2012 “Leap Frog” litter event.
FVUSA will be promoting more community events which will include tasks for ADOT to employ the power of “Partnering” that they seem to promote. Two of those tasks will be to pick up the glass on our highway shoulders and medians plus collect the remaining reflectors recently tossed by the ADOT subcontractors into the grass.
Cleaning the medians. I’m sure you would agree that any job worth doing is worth doing well. I ask ADOT to certify me, as a individual, who will sign a release of liability to clean the medians and they said no!
ADOT needs to mow the medians and make provisions for those willing to do so or do it themselves at the same frequency as the ADOT AAH Groups. A highway is litter-free when all litter is removed. A partially completed half-assed task reflects on all of us and many of us will not accept this result, will you settle for half measures?
Respectfully,
Gary Chamberlain “Point Man” FVUSA Cornville AZCC: ADOT Director Halikowski
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Just to be clear – The young folks pictured and under the age of 12 years of age, in Home Depot garb with Unger Grabbers holding ADOT blue bags, aren’t part of the official ADOT Adopt-A-Highway effort.
These young role models are the children of the parents of official ADOT Adopt-A-Highway Groups. They help their parents clean along the pedestrian sidewalks in Cottonwood on the same day and after their parents perform their ADOT AAH cleanup efforts.
Gary Chamberlain
“Point Man” FVUSA
Keep it safe for bicyclists !
Please make it easier for the people…especially the volunteers to keep the red rocks beautiful and safe.
Dear Aprilinda and Sedona Trading,
Any suggestions on what you would like to see done? Would you like to help us on August 12 and November 17, 2012?
We actually have some fun working together….. It’s always an adventure with much satisfaction.
Gary Chamberlain
“Point Man” FVUSA
Dear Verde Valley residents,
The time to voice your opinion is now and for crying out loud use your real name if you have such strong convictions!
Comments may also be sent to Folksville USA, PO Box 1138, Cornville, AZ 86325.
I have pride in a trash-free community that encourages tourism, new residents, new home sales and businesses that bring jobs. The businesses who have paid me over $4,000 at $10 per bag of trash that I pick up seem to appreciate the effort of anyone who makes their community a cleaner place to live.
Other groups should tell their stories about the trash they pick up, it creates educational and awareness opportunities that will cause changes in bad behavior!
At the end of the day, I will let the local businesses that support my activities determine the direction that I and the Folksville USA restore the beauty to America’s highways goes.
The next FVUSA litter event is August 18, 2012. Mark your calendars and come on out to help beautify our Arizona. Everyone’s efforts are appreciated, no matter the length of time or the amount of litter picked up while helping!
Look for a coming article in the SedonaEye.com about a high school student headed to London, England over the holidays who will be earning travel money by participating in a Folksville USA trash effort in her community! Great inspiration for those needing summer work to raise money! Bored kids and adults can apply at FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com today.
Gary Chamberlain, Point Man
FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com
I would like to work cleanig up oiur streets…..what is the next step? I’m a 67 year old retired hard worker and team player. I want to help our community. I live at Talking Rock Ranch on Williamson valley rd. ( mile marker 14 ) Just give me a bag and let me go
Thank you,
Brian Gunning
928 499 2890