Volunteers pick up trash along Interstate 94 just west of Huntley on Saturday during the first annual Enuff Is Enuff Let’s Clean It Up community cleanup. A bus from Huntley Project Schools waits in the background to deliver volunteers along the route. (Jonathan McNiven photos)
Originally published in the 5/4/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News.
HUNTLEY — Saturday’s community cleanup was so successful that Ryan Roen is ready to give it another go.
“I just really want to thank the people that came out,” Roen said.
In the wake of the “First Annual Enuff is Enuff Let’s Clean It Up,” Roen said he’s already planning for next year.
“We’re gonna keep that slogan,” he said. “We’re gonna do it again next year and grow this event.”
Saturday’s cleanup drew around 50 people, he said, most of whom boarded a Huntley Project Schools bus and were dropped off along Interstate 94 between Huntley and Lockwood.
Volunteers picking up trash along Interstate 94 on Saturday, April 28, 2018. (Jonathan McNiven Photo)
Other groups cleaned up Barkemeyer Park and at on-ramps adjacent to the interstate, and Roen said the results were phenomenal.
“We did what we could do,” he said. “We didn’t get it all.”
The trash filled almost 100 large, black garbage bags, which dotted Interstate 94 between Lockwood and Huntley over the weekend. Roen said the Montana Department of Transportation reported the trash read more
