The City of Pikeville, Pike County Pride, Pikeville Wal-Mart and UPIKE join forces to clean up the  community on Friday, April 29th. Trash will be picked up from various locations including, Walmart  Parking lot, Rivers edge in vicinity of Walmart to Texas Roadhouse, River access behind Captain  Ds, Pikeville bypass, and Penny Road. 

 

There will be two separate clean up sessions. Volunteers will meet at the Justice Way River  Access behind Texas Roadhouse at either 9am (Session 1) or 1pm (Session 2). 

 

The volunteers will  then separate into groups and move to their assigned locations. Gloves, trash bags and trash  pickers/reachers will be provided. T-Shirts will be provided in limited quantity. To secure a shirt,  please preregister on google form as preregistered volunteers will be the first to secure shirts. This  link can be found on the Pikeville Tourism Facebook Page. 

 

P.J. Collins, Director of Outdoor Recreation for the Appalachian Wireless Arena in collaboration  with the City of Pikeville says, “Take Pride in Appalachia, the theme for this community cleanup.  It’s time for us mountain folk to showcase our regions natural beauty and entice visitors to come and see what our unique community and region has to offer, which we inadvertently take for  granted as we see it daily. The first step in showcasing the natural beauty is to remove the  manmade eyesore that’s plagued east Kentucky for decades, trash along roadways and trash  deposited from frequent flooding events. This is a small first step but it’s a step in the right  direction!” 

 

We look forward to seeing you there to help keep our area beautiful. For more information on  this event please contact: patrick@appwirelessarena.com