Brethren,
Salem city has asked our stake as well as the west stake to maintain trash cleanup on SR 198 starting at 400 N (Chevron gas station) and ending at 1100 N (Laura Kay garden center). Our stake owns the east side of the road. This will be ongoing for this stake indefinitely. We have reflective vests as well as garbage bags available for you to use. All we ask is that the vests are returned in a timely manner. Please secure the trash bags by tying the tops and placing them at the Rec Center at which time the city will dispose of them. Please include this service in your yearly planning calendar of events. We need this project started as soon as possible keeping in mind that Salem Days is upon us soon. We need at least one or two wards to start the process in the next two weeks so please get with me. This area has not been cleaned for quite a while so there is going to be quite a bit of trash this first go round. Again, this will be ongoing and we want every ward to have the opportunity to perform service. Because this is going to be happening on a busy road, we will coordinate with the county and law enforcement to make sure all safety precautions are put in place. We do not need any accidents to happen so please bring plenty of adult leadership and vehicles. Feel free to invite the young women to assist as well. More to follow....
Respectfully,
Bro Walker
I am currently putting together a schedule that I will place on the blog as well as email for all YM Presidents. We would like this service to be performed monthly which will involve all of your quorums. We will start with two wards in Aug due to the sheer amount of trash and then cut back to 1 ward monthly. If we see that monthly is too often, we can move to every other month. The schedule will be sent out Sunday.
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Bro Walker