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| Nolan (holding Cooper), Brent, Melinda & Matthew |
As Anne Grant Photography, Inc. was growing, one of our goals was to be involved in service to the community. In 2004, we first began by joining the statewide efforts of Adopt A Highway. So, for a while, Anne & Nolan could be seen in the orange vests, picking up bags and bags of litter on Harper Rd, many times on holidays because that was the only way we could find the time to do it.
Now, we have our own Matthew Clark to help, and we are so grateful to our wonderful friends, Melinda Gentry & her brother Brent Bennett who have joined in the clean-up the last several times. (Cooper goes along for the ride!)
It always amazes us to see the amount of litter that is thrown out on the road and even more so, to see how careless and thoughtless people are about it. Many full bags of fast food trash, tons of drink cups, cans & bottles and whole folders of school papers are just a few of the items that have to picked up every time a clean-up is done.
The only thing we can imagine is that people must think some nameless county worker paid with our tax money picks up all this trash, so that somehow makes it OK.
We would just like to tell those who choose to toss garbage from their cars to imagine their own sister, mom, grandma, dad, grandpa, brother or child leaning down to pick up the disgusting mess and carry large bags of it up a highway...because that's exactly who we have to thank for keeping the "adopted" roads and highways beautiful.
On the positive side, during a clean-up, it never fails... a car will slow down and we hear "Thank You!" shouted from the car window, once again restoring our faith in the goodness of people who take pride in their community, appreciate a clean road, and do their part to keep it that way!
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