By Lion Tony Barry, Chair
On Saturday morning, June 18, 2016, six (6) members of the Damascus Lions club and one volunteer in service participated in a trash cleanup of Valley Park Drive. The Lions Club “Adopted” the one mile stretch of Valley Park Drive between Ridge Road (Rt 27) and Woodfield Road (RT 124) as part of the Montgomery County Adopt A Road (AAR) program. Montgomery County has posted signs on our adopted roadway which clearly identify the DAMASCUS LIONS CLUB as being responsible for the roadway. The signs are excellent publicity for the Lions club and one of them is clearly visible from busy Rt 27. Part of our responsibility is to perform a road cleanup six (6) times per year, and to report to the county after each cleanup, identifying how many volunteers we had and how much trash we picked up. The AAR chair, Lion Tony, has sent the report to the county informing them that we picked up five (1) large garbage bag of trash.
The following Lions participated in the event on Saturday morning; Lion Daniel A. (Tony) Barry (AAR Chairman), King Lion Barbara Barry, Lion Del Mayhew,
Lion Wayne Marr, Lion Joe Howerton and his son Ben and Lion Ray Molesworth
The weather was beautiful and it only took the industrious lions about 30 minutes to clean up the roadway. Our bi monthly cleanups are really showing and have resulted in less and less trash appearing on our stretch of road. Fun was had by all.
Our next scheduled road cleanup will happen in August and I hope to build momentum so we can increase club participation in this community betterment activity.