Dear Editor:
Saturday, October 21, nine members from the Butler Baptist Church picked up trash along 177 East.
Twenty-six bags of trash were collected starting at the intersection of Northern Elementary/US 27 and went to the 177 E/Kenton County line.
As usual, the most popular items picked up were empty beer cans and mini liquor bottles. Other items picked up included an entire front bumper and wheel from a white Chevy Cruze and a Dyson vacuum.
Please help us keep our community clean by disposing of trash in proper containers.
Butler Baptist Church
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Dear Editor:
On the evening of November 5, we decided to do our garbage pickup. We normally do Saturday morning, but with the temperatures predicted to be in the high 20s, we decided evening may be better. We were blessed with 18 people, adults and kids, to help! We were able to pick up 31 bags of garbage! Have a blessed and safe holiday season and please don’t litter.
Morgan Christian Church
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Dear Editor:
The Butler Lions Club with six of its members cleared two five-mile sections of highway this October. The regular cleanup on US 27 from State Route 17 through Falmouth had 42 bags of litter, half of which was recycled.
Then the club also cleared State Route 177 from Butler East to State Route 159. They picked up 18 bags of litter along with car parts, etc. The local landowner along both sections are keeping their adjoining land litter-free which made the job a lot easier.
Take your trash to the house; don’t pitch it out the window!
Thank the 109 Board for sponsoring this worthwhile litter pickup. It improves the look of the county.
Butler Lions Club
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Dear Pendleton County Community:
On Saturday, November 11, 2023, a group of volunteers from Kincaid Regional Theatre traveled to Lenoxburg Road in eastern Pendleton County. Their mission? To clean the roadside as part of Pendleton County Solid Waste Management’s Litter Pick-up Program. The group totaled nine participants. Two of those members were drivers, Shirley Merrill and Tracy Knox, while the other participants that walked the road included Derek Vanlandingham, Kaitlyn Vanlandingham, Cassandra Jacobs, Donald Knox, Hannah Conrad, Damien Newman, and Brett Price.
Throughout the morning, twelve large bags of garbage were collected over a length of 6.5 miles of road. The group noted the sections of Lenoxburg Road that needed the most attention were unoccupied hillsides near the bridge over Kincaid Lake and the first large hill on Lenoxburg Road when traveling east from the State Route 159 intersection. Fast food containers, beverage bottles and cans were the most prevalent items collected.
The group was thankful for great weather and friendly greetings from residents along the road, including those of many goats and a small horse with a large, fun personality.
Kincaid Regional Theatre is grateful to Pendleton County Waste Management for the opportunity to help clean our community and keep it green.
Sincerely,
Brett Price, Artistic Director, Kincaid Regional
Theatre Board of Directors
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Dear Editor:
On October 28, 2023, the Pendleton County Wildcat Football Team picked up trash on Rt. 17. We picked up a total of 35 bags and large items such as car parts. We want to thank the players and parents who volunteered their time. We are grateful for the opportunity to give back to our community and encourage everyone to help keep our county clean.
PCHS Football Team
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Dear Editor:
On October 14, 2023, PC Search and Rescue volunteers picked up 13 bags of trash on Broadford Road. We completed the six miles of roadway in roughly three hours. There were five PC Search and Rescue members involved in the trash pickup. Trash was a variety of items including, but none more prominent and continuative than bottles and cans ranging from soda to beer to whiskey. This just so happened to be the same issue that we came across last fall when we last cleaned the roadway.
We appreciate the opportunity to help make our community a clean and beautiful place for all.
Sincerely,
Chief Darrin P. Brown, PCSAR 2550
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Dear Editor:
On November 5, the PC Fair Board picked up trash along Center Ridge Road. It took an hour and a half for the 16 participants to pick up 14 bags of trash. The trash mostly consisted of fast food, pop cans, and beer cans. Please don’t litter.
Thanks,
PC Fair Board
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Dear Editor:
On behalf of the PC Youth Livestock Committee we would like to thank you for the opportunity to help “clean up” our county! The Livestock Committee consists of 4-H and FFA members as well as committee leaders. We picked up trash on Route 10 near Northern Fire House had a total of 19 people (12 kids and seven adults) and picked up seven bags of trash. We picked up trash on Sunday, November 5. We had a nice warm and dry day to pick up trash. It is a great opportunity for our youth and adults to better understand how important it is to throw their trash in a garbage can and not just out the window. We had plenty of cans, bags, and other interesting items of trash to fill our bags.
Programs like this are two-fold: we help the county and, in turn, it also helps our group feel better about cleaning up our surroundings.
Again, thank you for this opportunity to “clean up.”
PC Youth Livestock Committee
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PC Solid Waste Management:
The PC Boy Scout Troop 806 picked up along our 12 miles and we picked up 54 bags of trash. A lot of the trash was McDonald’s bags and single-shot liquor bottles. We would ask if everyone could please use the trash cans at restaurants and gas stations instead of throwing it out the window. The last thing I want to say is thank you for not throwing as much trash out the window. There was not nearly as much trash as we usually find.
Thanks again for letting us do trash pickup along U.S. 27 and Route 159.
Logan Voet, Troop 80y, Patrol Leader of Scary
Sasquatch Patrol
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Dear Editor:
Hi. I am Kylah Pendleton. My cheer team and I volunteered to do trash clean-up on November 12. On that day, we met a church and organized our groups to get the job done safely and efficiently. We split into five groups and cleaned up Flour Creek Road and KY 154 in PC. Our groups were excited to get to work and clean up our community. It was a beautiful day, and we were all positive while doing the work. We were grateful for the opportunity to serve our community by keeping the county clean. As athletes, we are proud to be an example for the rest of our peers by showing them how to make our community a better place. I know our team will continue to make a difference in our community and we are all proud of what we accomplished. Please don’t litter.
Kylah Pendleton
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Dear Editor:
PC Ladycats Basketball completed their annual fall trash pickup Thursday, November 7. There was a great turnout with a total of 29 volunteers. Ladycats basketball covers the seven miles on 1657 and 10 miles on KY 22 to the Grant County line. In total, this group collected 42 bags and two piles of trash. Ladycats are grateful for the opportunity to keep our county clean but encourage everyone to dispose of their trash properly. Be part of the solution, not part of the pollution!
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Dear Editor:
On October 21, PCHS Navy Junior ROTC cadets, parents, friends, and instructors cleaned up trash alongside an eight-mile stretch of U.S. 27 from KY 17 to the Campbell County Line. Seventy-one volunteers worked for about three hours filling 60 bags with garbage mostly made of fast food containers, alcohol bottles, tobacco products, and paper items.
The Navy Junior ROTC proudly serves our community and is committed to providing opportunity for students to develop as leaders, students, and citizens. Our service activities include toy drives, carnivals for special needs children, honoring veterans, and helping those in need. Recently, we helped with the Veterans’ Day dinner and coordinated the Veterans’ Day essay contest to show our appreciation of those veterans. We also collected items for our county’s food pantry, providing 1,334 food items to help local families. This commitment to service, education,a nd development has paid off four our cadets with NJROTC graduates earning over $6 million in scholarship offers in the last two years.
NJROTC is just one of many local youth groups that participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program. On behalf of all those groups, we ask you to please dispose of your trash properly and carefully tie down whatever you may be hauling. Litter on our roadways damages the environment and spoils the beautiful rolling hills of our county. Even unintentional littering can be dangerous and ruin someone’s day due to a flat tire or worse. Please do your part to keep PC safe and clean!
Very respectfully,
Cadet Chief Petty Officer Lucy Hensley, Public Affairs Officer, PC NJROTC
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Dear Editor:
On Saturday, October 28, PC Baseball team did our fall trash pickup. We are in charge of picking up trash on KY 10 from the Campbell/Pendleton Co. line to the intersection of KY 159 and Davis Road. We appreciate the opportunity to be able to do our part and keep Pendleton County looking good. We also would appreciate it if you could do your part, also, and all of us can keep Pendleton County looking beautiful.
Nick Arkenau, Senior PCHS Wildcat Baseball
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Dear Editor:
Once again the Dulce Life Group of six cleaned nine more miles of Highway 22 road, For the Oakland Christian Church teaches us That "spotless" is the word of God.
It's amazing all the things you find as you wind around the hills,
Buckets, gas jugs, beer cans that's left behind, Absolutely 25 bags that give no thrills!
We pick up little bourbon bottles galore, McDonald's cups and bags, a hitch,
A risque note (read no more), It's no fun walking the ditch!
A motorcycle fender was left (Maybe he'll come back),
A full tool chest to heavy to heft, We please: Just put garbage in a sack!
Now, this work makes you very observing, As you traverse the highway scene;
Just try it yourself and you'll soon be aware, Of which road is dirty or clean.
Dulce Life Group of Oakland Christian Church