July 11, 2008 -- Several new groups have volunteered to help keep Upper Peninsula highway roadsides clean as part of the Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) Adopt-A-Highway program.
Currently, 1,173 miles of state highways in the U.P. are being cared for by 515 volunteer groups across 15 counties. The second of three annual pickups is scheduled for Saturday, July 12, through Sunday, July 20, statewide.
"We greatly appreciate the service the Adopt-A-Highway volunteers provide, and we will install signs recognizing their efforts as soon as possible," said MDOT Superior Region Delivery Engineer Ray Roberts.
Recent volunteers participating in the Adopt-A-Highway program include:
- Advantage Training, M-553 in Marquette County
- Copper Harbor Trails Club, US-41 in Keweenaw County
- Family of Harold and Theola Werner, US-41 in Baraga County
- In Memory of John Landreville (Houghton County Court/Friend of the Court), US-41 in Keweenaw County
- Keweenaw Pride the GLBT Group of MTU, M-26 in Houghton County
- Sigma Pi Fraternity, M-26 in Keweenaw County
- Surveying Engineering Students of MTU, US-41 in Keweenaw County
- Tau Kappa Epsilon Theta Iota Chapter NMU, US-41 in Marquette County
- Terex, M-38 in Baraga County
- In Memory of Kelsey Leigh Lindberg, US-41 in Alger County
- Wells Fargo Bank, US-41 in Menominee County
- Linda's Bread Box & Sporting Goods, US-2 in Schoolcraft County
- Thompson Historical Advisory Committee, US- 2 in Schoolcraft County
- State Wide Real Estate of Manistique, US-2 in Schoolcraft County
- Honest Injuns Tourist Trap, US-2 in Mackinac County
- R.A.M. Building Company, Richard A. McNeil, US-2 in Mackinac County
- In Honor and Memory of Ronald Powers, US-2 in Mackinac County
- Walgreens of Sault Ste. Marie, I-75 in Chippewa County
- Friends of the Taquamenon, M-123 in Luce County
- An Extraordinary Man, Michael F. Macki, M-28 in Luce County
- In Memory of April Gouza, US-2 in Mackinac County
- The Frenches, in Memory of Family and Friends, M-48 in Chippewa County
- The Norway Deli, US-2 in Dickinson County
- Global Response North, US-2 in Iron County
- American Inn Silver City, M-64 in Ontonagon County
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