COUNTYWIDE : Volunteers to Clean Roads, Parks Litter
With trash bags in hand, volunteers will scour highways, beaches and state parks Saturday as part of the California Cleanup campaign sponsored by the state Department of Transportation.
About 50 volunteers are expected, a Caltrans spokesman said.
Caltrans will provide safety training, plus equipment such as hard hats, vests, safety gloves and glasses and orange trash bags.
“We have more people in the Adopt-a-Highway program in Ventura County even than Los Angeles County,” said Bruce Dyar from Caltrans.
Areas targeted for litter cleanup include the Ventura Freeway between Rice Road and Vineyard Avenue in Oxnard and from Ventu Park Road to Wendy Drive in Newbury Park.
Other routes include a two-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway from Calleguas Creek south to Point Mugu Rock.
Crews will also work on the Santa Paula Freeway from the Ventura Freeway to California 118. Volunteers include employees from Goodwill Industries and McDonald’s restaurants, and members of the Camarillo chapter of the Communication Workers of America, the Ventura Breakfast Lions Club and the Saticoy Lions Club.
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