CARS presented with 20 years
certificate for ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY
Adopt-a-Highway Required Video & Brochure: MDOT Safety Guidlines; Safety Brochure;
Adopt-A-Highway site.
Pickup Dates for 2018 are April 16 (rain day 4-18), July 16 (rain day 7-18), Sept. 24 (rain day 9-26), all pickup times are 6:00pm at former St. Andrews Episcopal Church parking lot, 3737 Clinton Road (M50)–use the Nazarene Church’s main driveway just to the north.
CARS’s part of M50 is from the assembly point to
Rives Junction Road (both sides).
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Cascades Amateur Radio Society joined Adopt-A-Highway 20 years ago
By Aaron Aupperlee | Jackson Citizen Patrio…
May 07, 2010, 9:29AM
Nick Dentamaro | Jackson Citizen PatriotSteve Rauscher, center left, pokes at Larry Phillips as he and Fred Bruey, left, and Dick Stanley clean up M-50. The members of the Jackson Amateur Radio Club have been cleaning up their adopted stretch of M-50 since 1990. Read more about the Adopt-A-Highway program
Fred Bruey bent down and wrangled a rusted hunk of metal twisted in the grass.
“Oh look, a muffler,” he said.
Not much was left of the muffler, which had probably been lying on the side of M-50 for some time. But not anymore. Bruey, a member of the Cascades Amateur Radio Society, slid the garbage carefully into his official Adopt-A-Highway bag, and in doing so another piece of trash was removed from one of Michigan’s roadways.
The radio society joined the Adopt-A-Highway program 20 years ago during the statewide highway clean-up initiative’s first year.
“This is one of those things we decided to do 20 years ago, and we’re still doing it,” said the society’s Dick Stanley, who originally adopted the 2-mile stretch of M-50 between Rives Junction and Hendee roads.
On April 12, the evening 12 volunteers from the Cascades Amateur Radio Society cleaned along M-50, the bag count numbered around 20. The group, splitting into teams and employing a popular divide-and-conquer approach to the trash, filled bags with cups, wrappers, bottles, crumpled cigarette packs, chunks of shredded tires and even a set of gloves. Stanley scored big, finding a still-sealed, half-pint of rum and the club head of a 9-iron. Bad day on the course, he thought.
Initially, there was no connection between CARS and its adopted stretch of M-50. Stanley chose the section of roadway, in part, because he thought it would be safer. But he also wanted neighbors to see the difference.
“We thought maybe it would be a little connected to the neighbors if we did one of these side streets,” Stanley said.
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