Kanawha River Clean Up
As a proud resident of good ole “Wild and Wonderful” West “By God” Virginia, I feel that it is important to give back to my community and stateJ. To give back, this past weekend I signed up for the 2009 Kanawha River Clean Up sponsored by Generation Charleston, a branch of the Charleston Area Alliance. In all, there were about 65 volunteers from around the Charleston, WV areas and the weather was wonderful! You can read the write up from WOWK 13 in Charleston, WV here if you like.
While walking up and down the river bank collecting rubbish, it really did irritate me all the random trash littering the bank I encountered. In my mind, I just envisioned some knuckle head driving past our state capitol tossing their random piece of trash out the window for someone else to deal with. There were a whole slew of items that just made you wonder what in the world this knuckle head was thinking when they were disposing of them. 40 oz beer bottles, laundry bottles, jackets, other items I will not discuss, and even sleeping bags. (I’ll have you know that my digging up and disposing of that sleeping bag got yours truly on the second page of The Charleston Daily Mail. You might not have recognized me because I was not in my Super Hero Realtor Outfit AND they spelled my name with 2 T’s ) In all, I collected about 2 trash bags of junk and also shoveled out the drain ditch on the sidewalks to allow the water to drain properly. It was good day I must say, not only did I help clean up and better our community, met some really cool people, but I also got in a great workout climbing up and down the river bank!
As a Charleston, WV Realtor and Huntington, WV Realtor, it is a very important part of my job to attract those wanting to buy a home or sell a home by getting out in the community and networking in such events as this cleanup. However, I am always one that puts others first before myself and would rather give than receive. This clean up was giving back to the community and gave others walking or jogging along the Kanawha Boulevard something better to look at rather than some empty Bud Light bottle or someone’s old fanny pack. (Plus I like to slay a big catfish from tim-to-time on these banks so that benefits me and my other fishing buddies too) So think twice next time should you be a litter bug and feel it necessary to dispose of your Yoo-hoo or Big League Chew Bubble Gum, I might have to clean that up!
Above is a picture I took from my I Phone day of clean up. Below are the volunteers. Can you find me?
While walking up and down the river bank collecting rubbish, it really did irritate me all the random trash littering the bank I encountered. In my mind, I just envisioned some knuckle head driving past our state capitol tossing their random piece of trash out the window for someone else to deal with. There were a whole slew of items that just made you wonder what in the world this knuckle head was thinking when they were disposing of them. 40 oz beer bottles, laundry bottles, jackets, other items I will not discuss, and even sleeping bags. (I’ll have you know that my digging up and disposing of that sleeping bag got yours truly on the second page of The Charleston Daily Mail. You might not have recognized me because I was not in my Super Hero Realtor Outfit AND they spelled my name with 2 T’s ) In all, I collected about 2 trash bags of junk and also shoveled out the drain ditch on the sidewalks to allow the water to drain properly. It was good day I must say, not only did I help clean up and better our community, met some really cool people, but I also got in a great workout climbing up and down the river bank!
As a Charleston, WV Realtor and Huntington, WV Realtor, it is a very important part of my job to attract those wanting to buy a home or sell a home by getting out in the community and networking in such events as this cleanup. However, I am always one that puts others first before myself and would rather give than receive. This clean up was giving back to the community and gave others walking or jogging along the Kanawha Boulevard something better to look at rather than some empty Bud Light bottle or someone’s old fanny pack. (Plus I like to slay a big catfish from tim-to-time on these banks so that benefits me and my other fishing buddies too) So think twice next time should you be a litter bug and feel it necessary to dispose of your Yoo-hoo or Big League Chew Bubble Gum, I might have to clean that up!
Above is a picture I took from my I Phone day of clean up. Below are the volunteers. Can you find me?
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