Scouts spruce up Hwy. 93 with trash pick-up
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POLSON — “We found some bones,” Cub Scouts Trey Manry, Connor Pierce and Kellen Wright shouted. The bones were the latest in a series of exciting finds, including a tire and a dollar bill. The Cub Scouts from Pack 4947, accompanied by Wright’s mom Kim and sister Kaycee, were picking up trash along Hwy.93 just north of the Miracle of America Museum on April 17.
The Cub Scouts worked the roadside nearest the junction of Highway 93 and 35 and left the steeper slopes to members of Boy Scout Troop 1947. Other treasures found were a cell phone, a tire chain, a full can of Bud Light that spewed warm beer over the Boy Scout who stabbed it, and a hubcap.
Spread from the top of Polson Hill north, about 30 scouts, scoutmasters and families gathered bags full of trash. The weather cooperated with sunshine although it was windy.
Cub Scout den mother Cristi Buffington said the Boy Scouts pick up trash on that section of highway “always in April and always in September.” Sometimes they schedule another clean-up day during the summer if there is a lot of trash.
The trash pick-up is a part of the Montana Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program. The DOT provided bright green reflective vests for the scouts and picked up the trash. Trash pick up is a service project for the boy scouts and took the group about an hour and a half.
