Adopt - A - Park Service Project
The Rotary Club of James City County recently adopted Veterans Park, to help the JCC Department of Parks and Recreation continue its efforts to make the park safe and attractive while helping lower maintenance and equipment costs. Several club members and family members posed with the new sign at the park while there to remove the club’s Flags for Heroes which flew for one week to honor COVID-19 frontline fighters (healthcare workers, first responders, and other essential workers).
JCC Rotarians were busy cleaning up along Rt 199 between Monticello and Longhill.
Club member Gary Chenault can answer questions about Highway Cleanup.
The James City County Rotary Club has been cleaning a 2 mile section of Rt 199 between Monticello Ave and Longhill Rd since 2002. Trash pick up is scheduled quarterly on a Saturday morning at 8 am. A typical trash pickup service project is as follows:
1- Volunteers meet in the Monticello Shopping Center (behind Burger King ) to pick up orange safety vests / orange trash bags and listen to safety briefing by project coordinator.
2- Group is divided into two teams and carpool to Rt 199. Each team will have a cell phone to communicate with the project coordinator who will be picking up trash at the Monticello Ave / Rt 199 interchange.
3-At Rt 199 the teams walk East bound and West bound to the midway pickup point. They cross the road and return to the carpool vehicles.
4 -Time for this project is directly proportional to the number of volunteers that show up, but typically the trash pick up is completed in 1-2 hrs.
5- Approximately 45 minutes into the pick up the project coordinator will provide bottled water to the volunteers.
6 -The project coordinator is within 2 minutes of his car should a team call for assistance
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Our members getting ready on a Saturday morning to cleanup our stretch of Rt 199.
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President Bill and Paul after a successful cleanup!
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Ready to gather trash on 199!