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Little Conestoga Road Cleanup #2

Just this past weekend, Sunday, July 27, residents of Sycamore Lane and Maple Flower Road volunteered for the second trash cleanup of Little Conestoga Road in Wallace Township. Despite the tall grass and overgrowth of trees we managed to collect 12 bags of trash, 8 of which were recyclable materials (cans, bottles, plastic).

Thanks to those neighbors that helped out this time!

If you live in Glenmoore, PA and would like to help us out the next time we cleanup Little Conestoga Road please drop us a message by clicking on the contact tab.

Little Conestoga Road Cleanup - Sunday July 27th

Hello Glenmoore Residents! We’ve reached out to the families that volunteered for the Adopt a Highway cleanup in April as we have scheduled the next cleanup event for Sunday, July 27th, 2008.

We already have about 10 people ready to help us out again to beautify our road and townships, Wallace and East Nantmeal.

We will be meeting at 8:30am along Red Sunset Drive off of Adams Road to break up into teams and pass out supplies.

Remember that children under the age of 8 are not permitted to volunteer as this is a safety issue and part of the rules and regulations passed on from PENNDOT.

If you have friends and neighbors that would like to help out for this cleaning or our future cleanings please bring them along or have them contact us to be added to the mailing list.

Jeff & Cathy Tincher, Organizers

Community Volunteers to Clean Up Little Conestoga Road

Jeff and I wanted to thank everyone who volunteered on Saturday, April 26th to help do their part to Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful! We began this program as a result of our daily commute on Little Conestoga Road and having to look at all of the trash each morning and night. We’ve also been trying to become more “green” this year and conscious about recycling, conserving and spreading information about green topics through this blog. Hope you are finding them useful!

We chose this early spring cleanup date as part of The Great PA Cleanup program sponsored by PENNDOT, which runs from March 1 through May 31.

We successfully cleaned our adopted two-mile stretch  of Little Conestoga Road (in Glenmoore, PA) from Adams Road to Fairview Road (well, almost all the way to Fairview…). Volunteer turnout for our first cleanup was terrific! We had a total of 20 people, including one child,  and collected over 40 bags of trash, most of which were bottles, plastic and other recyclables which we separated as “to be recycled”.  We also found 4 tires, 6 paint cans and various car parts buried in thick thorn bushes.

PENNDOT has been contacted and will clean up the bags of trash. Thanks to Cathy Poole for allowing us to deposit some of the recyclables at the end of her driveway. To anyone that might have kept their gloves and/or vests, please hold on to them for next clean-up! If your vest was one of the several ripped by branches, thorns, etc. we have several more available.

We anticipate our next clean-up to be sometime mid June or July and will send out emails to everyone as it gets closer.

Thanks again to everyone and hope you all enjoyed it!

Event: Adopt a Highway This Weekend

Hello neighbors. For those of you that are signed up as Adopt a Highway volunteers for this weekend’s cleanup thanks again and can’t wait to meet some new faces and clean up the trash along Little Conestoga Road .

For those people just finding this site from the flyers or sign information, here is a link to the past posts about our cleanup program.

WHERE : Little Conestoga Road between Fairview Road and Adams Road

WHEN : Saturday, April 26th, 2008 8:30am - 12:30pm

WHY : Get out and clean up our community, meet knew people, feel good, fresh air and a walk

Great PA Cleanup Scheduled April 26th

We have confirmed the date for the first cleanup of Little Conestoga Road. We will be performing the clean up on Saturday April 26th with Sunday April 27th as rain day. The two mile stretch of road we will be cleaning is Little Conestoga Road from Adams Road (where the development of Sycamore Lane resides) to Fairview Road (Fairview Church).  We are cleaning up our adopted road as part of  The Great PA Cleanup!  (click for more info).  Feel free to invite friends that might just want to lend a helping hand to clean up PA!

We’d like to meet at 8:30 AM on Red Sunset Drive, off of Adams Road. Please pull fully off of Adams Road and park along the right hand side of Red Sunset Drive. We will take about 15 minutes or so to review safety rules and hand out supplies (orange vests, gloves, signs, cones and bags) and then break up into 2 teams. One team will clean from Adams Road to Maple Flower (Lovell Lane side) and the other team will clean from Maple Flower (Lovell Lane side) to Fairview Road.

We are estimating that if we have about 16 people, that it may take 3-4 hours of volunteering to cleanup our adopted two mile section of LCR. Of course, by breaking into teams, it might not take this long! If you cannot help out during the entire time, that is fine, any help is great appreciated! Also, please remember that in accordance with PennDOT safety regulations, children must be 8 years of age or older in order to help out.

Thank you for you interest in volunteering!

Little Conestoga Road Cleanup!

Updated on 4/10/08: The date of the cleanup of Little Conestoga Road is Saturday, April 26th. For more information please contact Cathy Tincher.

For those of you who have agreed to help us clean a portion of the Little Conestoga Road, I just wanted to provide a brief update. I have provided the application and was told we should be able to “adopt” the portion of this road from Adams Road to Fairview Road. If we get enough participants and interest, we can extend our clean up area to cover more of LCR.

The goal is to have our first clean up on Saturday, April 26th to be a part of the Great PA Cleanup! event.

Thanks to everyone for their interest. If you have not already signed up to participate and our interested, please feel free to contact us.

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Adopt a Highway Program Update

Thanks to all those families that have volunteered to join my husband and I in our effort to keep Little Conestoga Road clean. Over 20 people have agreed to help us keep our local road clean. We have submitted the application for the section from Adams Road through Fairview Road. If we get enough interest and participation, we might even extend through Marsh Creek bridge. Marsh Creek Signs has the section of LCR from Marsh Creek bridge through Route 100.

As soon as we know our first cleaning date, we will email those who have signed up. If you are interested and you have not signed up, please contact us using the link at the top. Remember, kids must be over 8 and accompanied by an adult.

Glenmoore Residents To Start An Adopt-a-Highway Program

For the first official blog post of 2008, we’d like to start out by inviting Glenmoore residents, especially those living along Little Conestoga Road to join us in an Adopt-a-Highway program! We’re exited and already have the application form and now need some fellow citizens to volunteer as well.

I have spoken with the Chester County Coordinator responsible for the PA Adopt-a-Highway program in our area and have learned that Little Conestoga Road is available for adoption between Route 82 and the Marsh Creek Bridge. I was targeting the area of Little Conestoga between Adams and Fairview roads.

Here are some of the specifics:

1. As a group, we must be available to clean the adopted section of road a minimum of 4 times a year for a 2 year period. If we get a large enough group, the same people will not have to go out each time.
2. Safety vests and appropriate signs will be provided by PennDOT.
3. Volunteers must be at least 8 years old. This is a great opportunity for children to learn about community service and keeping our environment clean.
4. Sponsors cannot be affiliated with political party or other similar causes
5. We do not currently have any dates scheduled, we are just seeing the number of families that might be interested in volunteering. Our target number is 8 or more families!

Two road signs will be provided for us with the name of our “group”. We were thinking of listing WestGlenmoore.org as the sponsor on the sign. We currently own and run the WestGlenmoore.org web site and would be able to direct you and others to the site for information about our community. We’re hoping to grow the site into a useful blog and forums for our community.

Let’s all do a little bit to help keep our community and Pennsylvania beautiful!

We would like to return the application form by February 1st. If you are interested you can contact us here. Also, please pass this on to friends that we might have missed!

We appreciate all the families that can help us out!

Cathy & Jeff Tincher
Sycamore Lane