Adopt-A-Highway - Minnesota

Today a group of five of us picked trash in Crow Wing County. [The group is Bethany Lutheran College Friends]. I had some cancellations and so we were down to one car instead of two. We picked around Fort Ripley where the Nokasippi runs into the Mississippi. A reporter from The Brainerd Daily Dispatch is doing a feature story on senior citizens who do volunteer work. Our group of volunteers has been selected. We spoke with the reporter at the Baxter Caribou before we went out to the site. A photographer followed an hour later and snapped some pix of the group in action.

As I crossed the Nokasippi I looked over the side and saw a big section of someone's dock hung up below. I snapped a picture and will put it in the blog when I came back home.

The trash picking season ends for me on or about October 17th. For three consecutive Saturdays pickers will be working the Hwy 169-62 area in Edina, Hopkins, and Eden Prairie.

The story behind this sign

I had intended to put the name of the coffee shop where I am a regular patron on this sign. There are three coffee shops in close proximity to this site. The manager of the shop repeatedly told me that he didn't think he could get approval from higher HQ. I asked my friends at the coffee shop what I should do when the site became available. They told me to put my own name on the sign since the coffee shop manager wouldn't make a commitment.

Adopt-A- Highway Minnesota

This section of Hwy 62 in Hennepin County runs from Hwy 100 to Gleason Rd. The pick is scheduled for October 3, 2009. Call Norman Teigen at 612-750-9101 for details. It'll be a great day so join in on the fun. Assemble at the Caribou Coffee Shop at 169 and Bren Rd. in Edina at 8:45 AM.

October, 3, 10, 17, 2009

Members of the Bethany Lutheran College Friends and Nine Mile Creek are invited to the Bren Road Caribou on October 3, 10, 17 for pick-up activity. We will try to get as much done on the 3rd, it will be likely to take more than one try to get it all done.

Bethany baseball team to participate in Adopt-a-Highway

The Bethany baseball team, all 35 of them, will handle the pick at the Nicollet County site. I will participate and post some pix to this blog.

October 3, 2009 - big day for Adopt-A-Highway in Edina, Hopkins, and Minnetonka

Bethany Lutheran College Friends and Nine Mile Creek CAC volunteers are invited to pick up trash on Saturday, October 3, 2009. As usual, we will meet at the Caribou Coffee Shop at Bren Road and 169 in Edina around 8:30 or 9:00 am.

The DOT asked me to take another section of Hwy 62 (from Gleason Rd to Shady Oak Rd) but I couldn't find any group that wanted to take it. I decided to take it myself. I will post a picture of all of the signs later on when I finish up on some of my vacation travels.


Send an e-mail to me at norman61@me.com I'd like to hear from you.

Arizona will not provide signs for Adopt-A-Highway

ADOT HAS TEMPORARILY STOPPED MANUFACTURING AND INSTALLING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNS FOR NEW ADOPT A HIGHWAY VOLUNTEER GROUPS. THIS IS A COST CUTTING MEASURE AND ADOT APOLOGIZES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

[Norman's comment: Cheep, cheep, cheep! Another reason to live in Minnesota.]