Upriver Community Cleanup Day, a Great Success!
Members of our community turned out in full force on the gorgeous Saturday morning of April 26th, to clean up the Streets of Fernwood, Santa, Emida and surrounding highways. A day that also happened to be my daughters fifth birthday, so after shipping her off to town with her dad to get her ears pierced, I went out cruising the highways, snapping pictures of all the happy people, sporting neon orange vests and some of them equipped with long handled garbage pinchers or stabbers. It was a wonderful sight to see our community coming together so well for such a great cause. Joel and Cindy Newsom , from the Upriver Community branch of Horizons, did a fantastic job organizing our community cleanup day. In fact, everyone did such a wonderful job, that by the time my group got started at 11:00 a.m. we were hard pressed to find any garbage to pick up, which I must say was a little disappointing. Groups and people that signed up for miles included:
Employees of Emerald Creek Garnet Mill
Fernwood Church and Boy Scouts
Community Library
Upriver Civic Pride
Scott’s Welding and Fabrication
Halverson’s
Sharon Imes
Upriver Saddle Club
Lorelei Dockery, Jen Dockery, Jewl Kremposki, and Audra Anderson
Monteith and Peterson Family
Newsom Family
Drifters Café
Upriver PTO
Mary Wade
Darla Barden, Bridgett O’ Dwyer, and The Hagen Family
Each group was given ten bags, that works out to about 150 bags of garbage picked up from our scenic highways!
THANK YOU EVERYONE! For a job well done.