A group of Fairfield Glade residents went on a collection drive for the holidays.
But they didn’t walk door-to-door seeking cash; they walked intersection-to-intersection along Peavine Rd. seeking trash.
The 17 volunteers on Nov. 18 participated in No Trash November, an annual statewide program of the Tennessee Department of Transportation that gets residents involved in picking up litter to help beautify their communities for the year-end holidays.
The local campaign was coordinated by Carrie Smith of Cumberland County Litter Prevention and Education.
The volunteers assembled in the parking lot behind Dollar Tree at 9 a.m. and were given trash bags, gloves and trash pickers, implements that enabled them to pick up most litter without bending over. They donned traffic safety vests and headed out in search of what they came for.
What they were looking for was easy to find throughout the two-hour event.
Smith said the team collected 37 bags of trash.
That wasn’t all. Smith said they also picked up about 20 pounds of miscellaneous signs and wood scraps.
And toss in half of a glass fiber bathtub.
The volunteers all had something in common for the cause of community cleanliness. As one of them, Patricia Vincent, said, “I hate to see all of this trash along the road.”