Adopt A Highway Program November 2015 Update I am Eugene Rogers, the new coordinator of Fearrington Village’s Adopt A Highway program. I want to publicly thank Anne Beirne for her excellent leadership of our volunteers in recent years. It is my sincere hope that I can successfully...
Village Residents who participate in the Adopt A Highway program meet monthly (usually on the fourth Saturday depending upon the weather) to remove litter along route 15-501 from Weathersfield to Village Way and continue along Morris road. We meet at the Gathering Place parking lot,...
20 June 2015 Eleven Fearrington Village residents braved the heat and humidity this morning on a "Day Before the First Day of Summer" pickup and came away with 15 bags of trash. Well, we left the bags out there on the highway, trusting that DOT workers...
Recent Collections Data Summary January 2012 - Current 2013 Collection Date Volunteers Number of Bags Number of Hours Comments Dec 2013 8 10 12 Holiday clean-up accomplished. Nice warm day. It would get to 75 degrees! Not bad for the first day of winter. Nov 2013 Oct 2013 2 9 7 This was on Mon 28 October and followed the cancellation on...
On the beautiful fall morning of October 15th, ten volunteers spent more than two hours gathering 30 bags of litter from Fearrington Village's stretch of 15/501. This larger-than-normal pickup was due to having postponed the pickup because of bad weather and the fact that the DOT had...
The weather was responsible for the cancellation of our September pick-up, so we are rescheduling for 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 15, 2011. We plan to get back to our normal last Saturday of the month at the beginning of next year (2012). UPDATE posted October...
The August pick-up was canceled because of the expected bad weather here on Saturday, August 27th, which was related to nearby Hurricane Irene then much to our east. Since we did not have our regularly scheduled August pick-up, we will do our next pick-up on Saturday,...
These are certainly times that fry men's souls. Despite the continuing expected high temperatures for Saturday, July 30th, we are still on for this regularly scheduled Adopt-A-Highway pick-up. We're nothing if not dedicated :-). We will meet at 7:30am, however, the highway safety signs we put...
Thanks so much to the seven dedicated volunteers who spent more than two hours collecting 17 bags of litter from the front yard of Fearrington Village. We knew that, following the mowing of 15/501, we would have a monumental job ahead of us. Unfortunately, we...
With regret and sadness we note the passing of Marv Tauriainen. In addition to occupying positions in Fearrington Village, Marv was also a member of the Fearrington Village Adopt-A-Highway group. Both Marv and his wife Zana were regular volunteers of our group and were committed to maintaining...