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Keeping It Gorge-ous
Written By: Mary Jane McCall | Issue: 2018/03 - March | Photograph By: Marjorie Christiansen Photography
There’s nothing quite as satisfying as emerging from our winter cocoons on a bright spring day and doing a little spring cleaning. It’s even more gratifying when we join our friends and neighbors and help spruce up the Highlands community.
You’ll have an opportunity to pitch in and do your part when the annual Plateau Pickup Day arrives on Saturday, April 21. Join hardworking community volunteers when they don their bright orange vests and pick up litter by the roadside.
This community undertaking, sponsored by the Highlands Chamber of Commerce, bears no resemblance to the usual grumbling, grimacing “got to get this spring cleaning done” frame of mind, but instead brings smiling faces of all ages out for a day of community service cleaning litter from the Gorge Road (Highway 64 between Highlands and Franklin). This year the clean up will also include Highways 106 and 28.
The 2018 Plateau Pickup Day falls the day before Earth Day so it’s an especially meaningful way for everyone to commemorate Earth Day and give back on a local level. Mark your calendars now and invite your friends, family and neighbors to help with this worthwhile clean up. Residents and visitors alike are encouraged to come out to make this annual event another rousing success.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please call the Highlands Chamber of Commerce at (828) 526-2112 to sign up. Volunteers will meet at the Highlands Visitor Center at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, April 21 and are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and shoes. The Chamber will provide supplies needed for the task: vests, gloves, litter pick up tools and garbage bags. All volunteers will be treated to a cook-out lunch after the event at Cliffside Lake.
