Saucon Valley families, organizations and businesses were recognized for their volunteer work to help keep Lower Saucon Township’s roads clean at a township council meeting Wednesday.
The township’s Adopt-A-Road program is just five years old and was created after the Lower Saucon Sportsmen’s Association approached township officials to request the adoption of lower Ringhoffer Road in 2010.
After that, the township decided to formalize the program, township manager Jack Cahalan explained.
Today, nearly two dozen stretches of road in the township have been adopted by volunteers, who clean them by going on “litter patrols” twice a year, in spring and fall.
The township provides volunteers with trash bags, gloves and grabbers, and over the past five years more than 700 bags full of litter have been collected, along with discarded furniture, tires and other items dumped in Lower Saucon, Cahalan said.
“These volunteers have devoted a total of 389 hours” to the Adopt-A-Road program, he added.
In addition to being recognized with roadside signs, representatives for the following Adopt-A-Road participants were on hand to received resolutions passed by township council in their honor: Lower Saucon Township Historical Society, Saucon Creek Watershed Association, Lower Saucon Township Environmental Advisory Council, Saucon Valley Wrestling, Saucon Valley Youth Sports, Saucon Community Bible Fellowship Church, Hellertown Lower Saucon Little League, Lichak Family, Lower Saucon United Church of Christ & Red Door Early Learning Center, St. Theresa’s Church, Saucon Valley Farmers’ Market, Saucon Valley High School Future Business Leaders of America, Muschlitz Family, Riegel Family, Macek Family, Pagoda Family, Birkel and Palik families, and Jesse Repash Family.
Other participants in Adopt-A-Road include IESI Bethlehem Landfill, Lower Saucon Sportsmen’s Association and Christ Lutheran Church of Lower Saucon.
“Thank you so much. I really appreciate it,” township council vice president Tom Maxfield told the participants at the meeting.
“I love volunteers. You keep the community together,” added councilwoman Priscilla deLeon. “We can’t thank you enough.”
Lower Saucon Township’s Adopt-A-Road participants were recognized for their efforts to keep the township’s roads looking good at a council meeting March 18.
