Henderson County (Dec 26, 2023) - Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Lightning s Top 10 newstories of the year. We ll count em down in the coming days, starting with 10, 9, 8.
Commissioner Rebecca McCall spearheaded the effort starting in February after she noticed a substantial increase in the amount of roadside trash and larger household discards. There was a box spring and a mattress across from Blue Ridge Community College there was a recliner, she told the Local Government Committee for Cooperative Action last week. So if you needed furniture for your house you were all set. Since then, she said, she s noticed a great improvement.
McCall got a lot of reaction from people who said they, too, had noticed the proliferation of roadside litter. One man called her about a bag of trash someone had collected and left on the roadside near Glenn Marlow Elementary School in Mills River. He said he kept wondering when someone would come pick it up. Then with these words in my head from McCall and her Keep Henderson County Beautiful campaign, I went and picked up the big bag of trash.