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Rain doesn’t dampen excitement, effort during Craig Clean-Up Days

Sasha Nelson
Despite intermittent rain showers, volunteers and the community showed up in large numbers for Craig Cleanup Days. By mid-afternoon May 20 enough tires were collected at City Park to fill about seven bins. Pictured, from left, Debbie Montgomery, Aaron Cantrell, Matt Ross and Makayla Hartung help load bins with tires.
Sasha Nelson

Across the community hundreds of people went out under gray skies, braving the rain and the mud to clean up Craig and Moffat County.

“It was a great turnout by volunteers and by the community to cleanup trash,” said Craig City Manager Mike Foreman.

City and county staff won’t have final totals for a few days, however, City Crew Supervisor Rod Durham reported an impressive preliminary tally of trash hauled including:

  • About 14 roll-off bins of tires
  • Roughly eight roll-off bins of scrap metal
  • More than 130 refrigerators/freezers
  • More than 80 batteries

All three county commissioners and many of the city council members were out to help.

“Compared to last year this was a more collaborative effort between the city and the county,” said Moffat County Commissioner Ray Beck. “This is setting a great precedent of the future with city and county working together for the betterment of the community.”

Beck spent Saturday with a crew of volunteers from Bear River Young Life recruited by County Commissioner Frank Moe.

They started refreshing the large gravel “MC” on the northwest corner of Moffat County Fairgrounds — one of many improvements the county is making to upgrade the look of the prominent county property.

Volunteers also cleaned up parks, roadways, along creeks and ditches and sponsors got behind their efforts.

“We’d like to say thanks to all the sponsors and Memorial Regional Health and JW Snack’s for providing food,” Foreman said.

Beck was also grateful for the team effort.

“Our volunteers are the lifeblood of our community. I want to give kudos to them and to our city and county employees. They gave up a whole weekend to do this and I think that needs to be recognized,” Beck said.

Clean-Up Days are considered an important, positive step towards sprucing up the community.

“This is a great step in increasing our community pride,” Beck said.

Contact Sasha Nelson at 970-875-1794 or snelson@CraigDailyPress.comor follow her on Twitter @CDP_Education


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