The Kentucky Environmental Cabinet and Logan County Solid Waste Coordinator Nathan Cockrill have announced that two school groups, the Chandlers 8th Grade Class and the Logan County High School Band, have each won a random drawing for a $100 prize for their participation in the Commonwealth Cleanup Week.
This cleanup is held annually in March and is to beautify Logan County. This March five Logan County non-profit groups with 60 people participate. During that time groups picked up an illegal dump and 17 miles of roads. That amounted to 162 bags of trash and 8 waste tires. Cockrill expresses thanks to all who participated.
The band members picked u- trash on KY 96, the Orndorff Mill Road. Their sponsor was Lin Cropper. The Chandlers group, which was sponsored by Jamesa Lehye, cleaned up Hy 1040, the Coopertown Road
Both Chandlers 8th grade and the LCHS band were excited to hear they won, and look forward to the money benefiting their schools.
Shown below are before and after pictures of the area around Briggs Lake just north of Russellville. New Friendship Baptist Church groups cleaned up that area.
Next year, all Logan County civic, religious and other nonprofit organizations are invited to organize and register a cleanup during Commonwealth Cleanup Week through the Solid Waste Coordinator and get signed up for a random drawing for one of six $100 prizes from across the state.