SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
Volume 3, Number 22 • 32 Pages citizencdit@uslway.nei Statesville, NC 28677 • SOd
Published Weekly in the Crossroads of the Carolinas _____
Highway Patrol Will Help.
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Bob Plylcr/CITIZEN
NC Highway Patrohnen-from the left, Sgt. Rick Barrett, Trooper Staton Fox and Trooper Michael Long are part of the Bag-A
Bug team in Iredell County, which is expected to make the public aware of the roadside litter problem.
non riyier
Iredell Citizen
If you’re a litterbug,
wateh out for the NC
Highway Patrol’s new
Bag-A-Bug program.
Statewide, the patrol, the
Department of
Transportation and with
help from the motoring
puhlie, hopes to make
everyone aware that eups,
boxes, bags anti papers
thrown from vehicles- makes
our state look like a trash
dump.
Trash on the road destroys
the beauty of the landscape
and costs the state and cities
millions of dollars for
clean-up. Also, trash pollu
tion in our streams is
degrading our drinking
water supply.
Gov. Jim Hunt recently
issued an executive order,
Clean NC 2000, to make
the public aware of the
problem and to give citizens
a way to help.
In bedell County and across
the state, patrol cars will fly
green ribbons on their
antennas, reminding the
public of the Bag-A-Bug
and the Clean 2000 pro
gram.
What can you do to help?
.First, make sure neither
you, your family or friends
are litterbugs.
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