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Folksville USA Notes Improved ADOT Litter Clean Up Effort

Folksville USA Highway Litter Clean up event volunteers

Folksville USA Highway Litter Clean up event volunteers

Sedona AZ (November 25, 2012)Folksville USA Point Man Gary Chamberlain, picked up trash on Arizona Highway 89A over Thanksgiving weekend. The clean up was much easier and safer, he noted, because Flagstaff ADOT District mowed and cut brush for the Folksville USA November 19 litter clean up event.

Chamberlain was quick to point out, “Mike Gutzwiller of ADOT and his Highway Maintenance Department mowed, mowed, and mowed! If ADOT cuts back the remaining brush on the highway (between Cottonwood and Sedona on the west side of AZ Highway 89A) like it did on the east side, the roadway will be in good shape for the Folksville USA February 16, 2013 event. Great cooperative effort between the state and its highway clean up volunteers!”

The February 2013 litter clean-up will include 50 miles of highway on the Verde Valley side of Mingus Mountains and, as Chamberlain said while dragging a bag of trash to be recycled to his car, “Hopefully many more groups will clean-up along Arizona Highways 169, 69, 89 and 89A in Dewey, Prescott Valley, Prescott and Chino Valley. There’s a lot of trash to be bagged out here.”

Yavapai County is becoming the role model for how a properly managed Adopt-A-Highway effort works when commitments to the taxpayer funded Adopt-A-Highway Program are honored.

Chamberlain pointed to a pile of asphalt and concrete, located at MP-356 on Highway 89A that he stacked out of the way of ADOT mowers, now waiting for removal.

“I pulled it out of the bushes and off the roadside where it was dumped. ADOT requested that large items be moved out of the mow-strip so taxpayer-paid mowers would not be damaged. The contractor that dumped this asphalt and concrete should be ashamed, and at the very least, fined and fined big. It should also disqualify that company from any further business with the taxpayers,” he said disgustedly.

Chamberlain took time to appreciate the work of the Flagstaff Highway Maintenance Department employee who mowed the section of roadside he was cleaning. “Whomever he or she was, it’s a great job! The previous ADOT Highway Maintenance Department employee would mow over everything in the mowers path, no matter what it was! That was no way to treat our taxpayer equipment, already in short supply, and it showed a disdain for the work. This time, the employee who mowed should be commended for this effort. It’s important to recognize good work ethics and values, and wise use of taxpayers hard earned dollars.”

If you are interested in volunteering three times a year to clean up a mile section of local highway, see the list below and contact ADOT Adopt-a-Highway program or FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com. You do make a difference!

Names of Arizona Folksville USA Highway Litter Clean Up Groups on AZ Highway 260 and AZ Highway 89A and the Scenic Highway 89A Jerome / Cottonwood / Sedona Adopt-A-Highway Groups:

Available MP 339-340

Available MP 340-341

Available MP 341-342

Available MP 342-343

Available MP 343-344

Available MP 344-345

Available MP 345-346

Available MP 346-347

Lavick Family Jerome Police & Fire Dept. MP 347-348

Psycadelic Mariachi MP 348-349

Available MP 349-350

Verde Valley Medical Center Radiology MP 350-351

The Compassionate Friends MP 351-352

In Loving Memory of Josh Mullins MP 352-353

Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce MP 353-355

Rio Verde Roverett’s, Inc. MP 355-356

Available MP 356-357

Immaculate Conception Parish MP 357-358

Knights of Columbus Council #2493 MP 358-359

Cottonwood Ranch MP 359-360

Sedona Boy Scout Troop #48 MP 360-361

Verde Valley Cyclists Coalition MP 361-362

Halau Hula Na-Pua-O-Ka-Lei-‘Ilima MP 362-363

Sedona Car Club MP 363-364

Sedona Pines LLC MP 364-365

Sedona Pines Resort MP 365-366

Central Arizona Masonic #14 Sedona MP 366-367

Sedona Shadows & Sunset Hills MP 367-368

Available MP 368-369

Rotary Club of Sedona MP 369-370

Highway 260 Cottonwood to Camp Verde Adopt-A-Highway Group’s:

Mickles Custom Homes MP 89A-207

Verde Village Property Owners Association MP 207–208

Verde Village Property Owners Association MP 208–209

Cottonwood Wal-Mart Associates MP 209–210

Clarkdale Verde Kiwanis MP 210–211

Faith Lutheran Church MP 211–212

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Department MP 212-213

Available MP 213-214

American Legion Family Post #25 MP 214-215

Verde Valley Rotary MP 215-216

MUHS Marauders Wrestling Team MP 216-217

Highlands Resort at Verde Ridge MP 217-218

Camp Verde Fire District MP 218-219

American Legion Family Post #93 MP 219-220

Friends of Coy Hughes MP 220-221

Available MP 221-222

Boy Scout Troop 7193 MP 222-223

Verde Marshall’s Office MP 223-224

Copper Canyon Academy MP 224-225

Verde Valley Archaeology Center MP 225-226

Clear Creek RV Park MP 226-227

To volunteer for the February 2013 Folksville USA clean up event and to make an Arizona difference, email Gary Chamberlain FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com for information.

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