ELIZABETHTON â Spring cleaning has long been a healthytradition of the coming of spring, as well as doing some outdoor exercise to get back into shape after being inside all winter. The Keep Carter County Beautiful organization will be keeping those traditions alive for the new season with several planned activities starting this weekend.
On Saturday, the Keep Carter County Beautiful organization will once again be in springtime mode as it start the first of several projects planned for this season. Saturdayâs event is another clean-up effort on its assigned highway in the Governorâs Adopt-A-Highway program, the Milligan Highway. Volunteers for the clean-up will meet in the Happy Valley Elementary School parking lot at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 20.
Boat ramp project in works, whitewater park survey being conducted
ELIZABETHTON â The Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department is working on several projects and several of those are water-related recreation projects.
One of these is the boat ramp off the Master Sgt. Donnie Davis Bridge on Tenn. Highway 400, which will provide access to the north shore of the Watauga River.
The departmentâs staff is continuing to work with the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency on getting the ramp established.
The effort includes the creation and installation of signage on site that is required to obtain feedback from the public.
HAMPTON â The first of a series of cleanups of litter from East Tennessee rivers and lakes was a success despite the cold weather, according to Ed Jordan, president of Keep Carter County Beautiful.
âThe Watauga Lake cleanup last Saturday was a success,â Jordan said. âThanks to all the volunteers who braved the cold weather and water that made this event a great success.â
The event was the kickoff of a series of four cleanups in the Cherokee National Forest River Cleanup presented by Volkswagen.
The remaining events of the series will be held at South Holston Lake on Saturday, Feb. 13, starting at 10 a.m. at the launch point at 19482 County Park Road in Abingdon, Virginia; Tellico Lake on Saturday, Feb. 20; Parksville Lake on Saturday, Feb. 27; and the Ocoee River on Sunday, Feb. 28.