Nick Saylor loads a bag of trash collected from Phillips County roads onto a trailer to be hauled to the landfill. — Photo courtesy of Elise Pocock
Diana Baeza and Josh Martin work together to bag up cans, bottles and other litter from a country road last week. — Photo courtesy of Elise Pocock
Carson Ebke, Tyler Hase and Joel Muller, pictured from left, gear up for Highline’s community service project last week. — Photo courtesy of Elise Pocock
Highline Electric participates in Bike to Work Day, community service
Employees from Highline Electric Association participated in Bike to Work Day last Wednesday, June 28, followed by a community service day to clean up the county roads surrounding Holyoke. The 30 participants who biked or walked to work, which included employees and spouses, received a breakfast burrito and a T-shirt.
There were 44 participants in the community service day from the Holyoke, Sterling and Ovid offices. Employees from the Holyoke office cleaned up 15 miles of county roadways near Holyoke. The Sterling and Ovid offices also did trash cleanup in their areas. The Holyoke office alone took 1,460 pounds of trash to the landfill.