Altrusa/ASTRA Volunteers Clean Up

ASTRA members Tessa Sullivan, Mary Katherine Hooley, and Meagan Lynch (ASTRA President) help clean up US Highway 550


A group of 21 members and friends of Altrusa and its youth affiliate, ASTRA, picked up an assortment of cans, bottles, hubcaps, cardboard, auto parts, and even a stray one dollar bill along US 550 between Montrose and Colona on Saturday, October 6.

We cleaned up from Mile Marker 121 to 123, and even a bit beyond! The volunteers met in front of the Jerky store, donned fashionable orange vests, and set out with huge orange garbage bags. We filled a total of 42 large bags with roadside trash.

Watch for a repeat of this event next Spring. We hope you'll join us!



Susan Woody was the pleased winner of the drawing for a grabber tool for picking up trash.


Diane Winger demonstrates that picking up trash can be fun.

Thanks to Altrusa members Roberta Hoey, Christy Biella, Kaye Hotsenpiller, Carol Parker, Anita Johansen, Al Shoemmer, Natalie Frush, Judy Snedeker, Sally Senger, Diane Winger, and Susan Woody
and thanks also to ASTRA members Catherine Buy, Jaimee Elder, Bree Shawcroft, Rebecca Sherwood, Ashley Tyrrell, Laura Schroedel, Sara Kuta, Kassey Petschl, Kristin LehriJori Ayres, Autumn Triesch, and Meagan Lynch.