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Volunteer With Pick Up America Sunday

This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series Good Without God

Bill shared the following email with me this evening:

Dear Bottle Bill Supporters,

A group of recent college graduates has decided to put their professional lives on hold to walk across the country and clean litter from our roadsides. Pick Up America has already gathered 27 tons of trash over 540 miles of road from the coast of Maryland and will be traveling on Midland Trail (Route 60) from Montgomery to Charleston this week. Through their journey, they are documenting the negative aspects of our nation’s throwaway mentality (see more at www.pickupamerica.org). While they are in town, they are hoping to find volunteers to help them. They are also looking for anyone who has a pick-up truck to help them remove their recyclables from the side of the road. (so we can recycle!!)

If you’d like to volunteer please call one of their members to coordinate. Read the rest of this entry »

Our Rail Trail Cleanup 2: September 3

This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Good Without God

We met Friday, September 3 at 5:30 pm at Hazel Ruby Park to clean our Rail Trail. This was our second cleaning. Everyone brought gloves.

~Update: Thank you to everyone who showed up to clean our Rail Trail! We had 10 people and with all those busy hands we finished in no time. It had been raining and thunderstorming not long before we met but we took a chance. We were “blessed” with no rain while we cleaned.

Thanks again!

Let’s meet at the roundabout where our trail starts (Decker’s Creek Trail), at Hazel Ruby Park behind Wings Ole’. There’s a small parking lot to the left where the trail starts.

Any questions, just email me.

We’d love your support and help!

A Map

If the weather is poor, we’ll reschedule. Stay tuned to this post for any change of plans, email me, or call me (Neece) Read the rest of this entry »

Our Rail Trail! August 15: First Cleaning

This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Good Without God

~Update: After our book club meeting 12 of us walked, talked and picked up trash along the Rail Trail. Thank you to everyone who came along and helped out! You made it fun and easy. We picked up quite a bit of trash.

Rachel took some pictures so once she emails them to me I’ll post them here and on our Facebook group page.

Thanks again, everyone! It was a great success!

Everything is moving forward with our Adopt a Trail program! After our regular meeting August 15, we’ll go to Hazel Ruby Park together and clean up the trail for the first time. If you can’t make the regular meeting but want to help out, I suggest calling one of us ahead of time to figure out when we’re heading over. (Rough guess? Around 7pm-ish)

We have adopted the first half mile of the Decker’s Creek Rail Trail.

Please comment below if you plan on coming along to help out. The trail is relatively clean so it won’t be hard. It would be great if you could wear your Good Without God shirts, too. We’ll get a group picture.

Don’t forget to bring gloves!

Any questions, just email me.

Our Adopt a Trail

This entry is part 8 of 18 in the series Monthly Meetings

Here is the Rail Trail we’re going to adopt. If you have any suggestions or ideas feel free to call, email me, or leave a comment below. I’d love it if you’d let me know that we can count on you to help us when we go out to clean the trail.

Once our application is approved (it’s been sent in), we’ll schedule our first cleanup for right after a meeting. I’ll keep you posted as to when that will be.

Here’s a Map:

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This is Hazel Ruby Park, basically behind Wings Ole’ and under the Westover Bridge. This is close to where the trail head is.

Decker’s Creek Trail head. This is where we’ll start. We are adopting 1/2 mile Read the rest of this entry »

Adopt a Spot or Adopt a Trail

This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series Good Without God

Hey everyone!

~UPDATE: See full post for an update on the trail that is available in the city, on Decker Creek trail.
~Update 2: Let’s go check out the trail on Sunday. If you want to bike the trail with Butch and I, that would be great. It will be a leisurely bike ride (or maybe a walk if everyone wants to do that instead), around 11 am. Here is a Facebook Event for it. We need a meeting place (someone in Motown needs to decide the best place to meet). Email me for details or join the FB event.

Yesterday we went to Gerald’s 4 spots on Rte 7 (Earl Core Rd) and verified that the stretch of road the spots are in are already adopted. So Butch and I went a bit further (past Greer) and found 2 other spots, one which we prefer (because it’s a bit bigger and looks nicer, ie: better view and safer looking with more room for us to be on the side).

Here are 4 pictures of the one we liked, along with a map and Google Map street view. As you can see in one of the pictures, there’s trash there, so it needs a bit of attention. The image of the grass just shows, from the spot, the creek within easy walking distance:

Here’s the Google Map: Read the rest of this entry »

Help Pick Our Adopt-A-Spot

This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series Good Without God

Gerald has found four “spots” along Earl Core Rd. that look promising for us to choose from. While it would be nice to adopt a road, we have been unsuccessful in finding a two mile stretch that isn’t dangerous and therefore unsuitable. Our next best option is to Adopt a Spot which is a right-of-way on a state road, 1/4 mile long or less.

Here are Gerald’s directions: Pioneer Rocks is along Earl Core Rd. Earl Core Rd. is the road that goes through Sabraton, but this is going along it in the other direction. Instead of going through Sabraton, go towards where the Comcast office is (along Earl Core Rd and Summer School Rd, which is the one going up the hill next to the Comcast office). Continue along Earl Core Rd., through Dellslow, for about a mile. After about a mile, you will cross a two lane bridge that goes over Decker’s Creek. The first left after you cross the bride is Tyrone Rd, where the Botanical Gardens are located. Stay on Earl Core Rd. and continue going up the hill to the first spot. They are all on your right.

Gerald tried to pick wide places, since people speed on that road. All these spots along Decker’s Creek are between the entrance to Tyrone Rd. and Greer Limestone.

SPOT 1: The first spot is the fourth pull over spot. I like it because there is a path down to the creek:

SPOT 2: The second spot is at the top of the hill. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but there is a large rock on the hillside that you can see when coming up the hill. You can’t really see much of it in the picture or when you are standing at the spot, but it does have a nice view looking down the hill at the creek: Read the rest of this entry »

Good Without God, Take Two

This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Good Without God

After careful thought, we decided to look into two programs to give to in the name of Morgantown Atheists for our Good Without God campaign.

For the main program, we are going to Adopt a Road!

Your job, especially if you’re in Morgantown, is to scout out 2 miles of road that meet the following criteria:

Any public road is acceptable except highways and unsafe roads. So find something we can maintain safely.
It has to be a minimum of 2 miles.
- It has to be one continuous 2 mile stretch, not an L or T shaped section.
It has to be able to be cleaned safely.

Alternative if we can’t find a 2 mile stretch:

We can also Adopt a Spot:
- A state roadside right-of-way
- No longer than 1/4 mile in length

Please let me know of any and all possibilities as soon as possible so we can get started before it gets too hot. Email pictures and other information to Neece.

We are going to do these programs in the name of Morgantown Atheists, after careful thought and discussion.

Our second program is easier. We are going to collect pop (soda) tops for Ronald McDonald House in Morgantown:

Starting now, collect as many aluminum can tabs as you can and bring them to the meetings. Then we’ll get a few of us together and take them to RMH when we have a decent amount, hopefully on a regular basis.

If you can, get your co-workers to contribute to this good cause as well. You can put up a can or something where you work where people can drop them, just as an idea. If you want a little sign to print, let me know and I’ll design something and email it to you.

Not all of us drink soda, but beer tabs will work too. The Ronald McDonald House uses them to contribute towards their rent. It’s nearly effortless and for a good cause.

Any questions, call or email Neece.

Volunteer With Pick Up America Sunday

Our Rail Trail Cleanup 2: September 3

Our Rail Trail! August 15: First Cleaning

Our Adopt a Trail

Adopt a Spot or Adopt a Trail

Help Pick Our Adopt-A-Spot

Good Without God, Take Two

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