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March Adopt-A-highway report - Minnesota

There's getting to be a lot of trash along the highways after a long winter. I went to the Eden Prairie DOT shop and talked with the boys. They know that we trash pickers are gung-ho to get out there. I told Rosey, the head guy at Eden Prairie, that the first group would go out on Earth Day, April 19th and that for three consecutive weeks people would be picking on 169 north.

Mattress fallen on to highway causes SUV to burn

The Strib today ran a story about a lady who ran over a mattress on the highway. The driver was warned by another driver that she was dragging the mattress along the way. She pulled off the road and at the urging of the Good Samaritan driver she abandoned her vehicle. The woman's vehicle was then totally destroyed.

It's a big problem this trash on the highway. Help this season when the call comes to walk the highways of Minnesota again to pick up the trash.

Adrian Peterson-Hwy 62-Nine Mile Creek Adopt A Highway

#28 for the Vikings, Adrian Peterson, was ticketed the other night for going 128 mph. He was stopped on Hwy 62 at Gleason Road. I always knew that people went pretty fast on this stretch of highway, where trash is picked by Nine Mile Creek CAC volunteers, but this is ridiculous.

The 2009 trash picking season is over in Minnesota but the trash is still coming

I haven't been out on the highway for about a month now. The weather in October wasn't good. November weather has been much better. New light poles have been put up in around the Hwy 169 and 62 intersection in suburban Minneapolis. Construction crews have been over almost every piece of that ground and the ground looks pretty clean.

Of course, there is always trash to pick but it can wait until the Spring. I have picked three bags from three different walks. I live on 11th Av S in Hopkins and when I walk to the Caribou in Edina I walk on 11th, Smetana, and Opportunity Ct. I figure that I might as well pick up trash on my way. I have placed the three bags away from the street for pick up next year. I don't want to take a chance that Minnetonka won't be able to pick up these bags before we are hit with a sudden snowstorm. It's that time of the year for sudden snowstorms.

2009 trash picking season is over - Adopt-a-Highway

October has been a bad month to pick up trash . On the 3rd it rained, on the 10th it snowed, and on the 17th ice was over everything.

Trash picking activities will resume in April 2010.

Snow today - trash picking postponed until October 17th

Yesterday there was frost on the pumpkin and today there is snow on the ground. Picking is postponed for another week. Let's meet on Saturday, October 17th.