Roadside Cleanup

Saturday, April 3rd, members of Friends of Central Iowa Biking cleaned up along the roadway on Cameron School Road.  Members pedaled their bicycles out to the start point and donning their yellow safety vests, walked along the ditches and cleaned up the usual paper, plastic, cigarette packages,  beer cans, and food wrappers.  Burger King, McDonald's, Marlboro and Keystone Lite were the most popular brand names.

This year, they also picked up a mattress, a pillow, a wood pallet and a motorcycle windshield.  Steve Libbey used a long tree branch to remove a large plastic sheet from a tree.

Participants included: Craig Corson, Jim Gregory, Denny Jones, Steve Libbey, Steve Moehlmann, Terri Nelson, Don Nystrom, Wolf Oesterreich, Terese Peters, Rich Van Valin.

Jim Gregory (Bikes at Work) loaded his trailer with the mattress, pillow, pallet and 10 bags of trash and brought them back into Ames for proper disposal.

Photo taken by Dennis Jones