Logan Lions Club reports very successful litter pickup last weekend

The Logan Lion's Club collected 61 bags of garbage during its most recent litter cleanup last weekend in Holden.

HOLDEN The Logan Lions Club reports over five dozen bags of trash collected during a very successful litter cleanup in the Holden area.

Logan Lion Susan Perry said on today’s “What’s Your Opinion” that the turnout of volunteers last Saturday allowed the civic organization to cover a decent stretch of road with its cleanup efforts.

“We cleaned from the hospital’s Life Service Center – if you’re as old as I am, it used to be the Holden Rec Center,” she said. “We cleaned all the way up to the bridge there at Main Holden, we also cleaned part of the ramp coming down from Corridor G, and we got 61 bags of garbage.”

Those sixty-one bags didn’t include the larger items volunteers found, including a television. Perry said the group also recovered three cellphones on the roadside, one of which was able to be returned to its owner.

Some unfortunate findings included a number of alcohol containers, Perry saying she personally found several bottles tossed out on the ramp to Corridor G. On top of those disturbing discoveries, she said some items she found were just baffling.

“We found a cup from Cookout. Now, I think the closest Cookout is in like, Teays Valley or somewhere like that,” she said. “There’s one in Huntington and there’s one in Charleston, and we found a cup from Cookout. So, I mean, why do you carry that with you all the way and then suddenly decide when you’re on the ramp at Whitman to throw out your Cookout cup, your cellphone?”

That cleanup was organized with the help of the Crawley Creek Church of God.

Litter cleanups are a Logan Lions Club tradition. Around this time last year, the group recovered nearly fifty bags of trash, a whole room’s worth of carpet padding and a carpet shampooer, all of which was on the side of the new Route 10 between Logan and Man.

Their next pickup is coming up on April 22 on that same road. That effort is being organized with the help of friends at Southern West Virginia Community & Technical College. Volunteers will meet at 9:30 that morning in the parking lot of the Ralph R. Willis Vocational School. The pickup itself will be from 10 to noon.

April 22 is Earth Day, and on top of the cleanup on the new Route 10, Susan said it would be a thrill to turn this local effort into a county-wide event.

“We’ve already had residents from two different places in the county message the Lions Club and say, ‘hey, we’ll come out and help if you can come to our community,’ so if there are any organizations out there that want to do this, we can give you a couple of areas where the residents say that they would like to help. We would be happy to tell you where those are, all you’ve got to do is contact us,” Perry said.

For more information about local cleanup efforts or to even get involved, contact the Logan Lions Club on Facebook or reach out to their email: loganwvlionsclub@gmail.com.

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