roads and rivers day in seymour

published: September 02 2008 01:47 PM updated:: September 02 2008 03:11 PM

Seymour - Keep Sevier Beautiful’s county-wide fall Roads and Rivers Day will be held Saturday, September 13, from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Seymour residents are encouraged to take part in this effort to remove unsightly litter from our streets, roadsides, river banks, and public areas.

Participants are asked to meet for street and road assignments at 9:00 a.m. at Seymour First Baptist Church located at 11621 Chapman Highway. Litter bags, orange safety vests, gloves and litter pickers will be provided. Those unable to come to the central staging area are encouraged to pick up litter from their own street or roadside area. If each Seymour resident or business kept the litter on their frontage area picked up, it would make a big difference.

Roads and Rivers Day is part of the Great American Cleanup and Tennessee’s "Stop Litter. Tennessee’s Had Enough" campaign. For more information call 573-7759.

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User Comments

#1 JAILBIRD commented, on September 3, 2008 at 6:38 p.m.:

THEY HAVE PEOPLE IN JAIL WHO SHOULD BE PICKING UP LITTER! BRING BACK THE CHAIN GANGS! HAD ENOUGH OF THESE GUYS SITTING AROUND WHILE THE TAX PAYERS FOOT THE BILL.

#2 Sevier Born commented, on September 5, 2008 at 3:26 p.m.:

they have offenders work on the roads in Sevierville, I have seen them. Why can't Seymour get a few of them?

#3 Political Signs commented, on September 6, 2008 at 10:59 p.m.:

Political signs along with all signs are consider litter if in the right of way. Be sure and pull the signs.

#4 Boss Hogg commented, on September 8, 2008 at 11:10 a.m.:

The jail road crews regularly pick up litter in Seymour. I see them pretty often along Union Valley Rd

#5 Pride commented, on September 9, 2008 at 10:20 a.m.:

If they would fine some of the offenders once in a while and make an example of them - we might not have so much roadside litter. I see people every day throwing trash out the window while driving. I have never heard of anyone getting pulled over for litter. I have even seen Sevierville City police and SC Sheriff's department cars littering. The County road crews are bad at littering the rural highways. As they work, they litter the roadsides with their lunch and snack debris. The county could do something about it but they don't seem to care.