Clean Tahoe recognized by state for its efforts
Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program honored the Clean Tahoe Program with the 2011 Adopt –A-Highway Program Volunteer of the Year award for the group’s outstanding efforts in keeping a portion of Highway 50 from the Y to state line in South Lake Tahoe clean.
“It is a thankless job to pick up litter on the side of our state highway,” Caltrans District 3 Director Jody Jones said in a statement. “Volunteers like those from the Clean Tahoe Program are helping to keep their community clean.”
The award was presented at the Clean Tahoe Program board meeting Sept. 20.
Clean Tahoe volunteers have been picking up litter along Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe since they adopted the roadside in May 2003.
The Adopt-A-Highway program, which began in 1989, has been one of the most truly successful government-public partnerships of all time. More than 120,000 Californians volunteer annually to clean and enhanced over 15,000 shoulder-miles of roadside.
Congrats Clean Tahoe Program! Thanks for all your hard work! I see you folks working hard all over town, and I and many other locals, and tourists without even knowing it, appreciate so much the time, energy and commitment you put into making our home cleaner!
Thank you Clean Tahoe Program for all your hard work. You do an outstanding job that is very much appreciated but the sentiment is not enough expressed. Congratulations on this well deserved award.
Can I get an Amen?
Ellen, Lou and the whole crew at Clean Tahoe deserve everyones thanks for all that they do. Aside from the Adopt-A-Highway program, they also respond to community wide trash issues and co-sponsor (with STR) the annual $5 dump day.
Ya’ll rock!
Thank you all for your really nice comments. We really appreciate them!
They do a great job. I’m always seeing someone picking up trash along the road. They deserve to be recognized. It is such a good program.
Clean Tahoe does do a great job. I have called them several times to clean up trash scattered by animals at vacation rentals and second homes.
I was just wondering, is this truly a “volunteer” activity or done during normal working hours. Our property taxes pay for Clean Tahoe to pick up trash around the entire South Shore. And how exactly do they sponsor the dump day?
Congratulations Clean Tahoe Program. Well-deserved recognition and appreciation. Good job!
Great to have these volunteers of course, but why can’t we use the jailed dopers and
drunks to work off their incurred expenses,
and have them clean up the litter and other
jobs as well?
After all, they are ‘free labor’ and they have cost all of us at some
level….