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Don Yarbrough is hard at work, in more ways than one. The progenitor of the Weald Workers of Lamar County not only is walking around picking up trash in an effort to clean up, heâs also making sure Weald Workers is OK on the backend, filing paperwork so it is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the state and federal governments. âWeâve got a two-year business plan right now,â Yarbrough said, âand Iâm doing all the budget stuff I need to do for grants.â For the past several years, Yarbrough has been cleaning up the Trail de Paris, sometimes with help and often without, graduating from a normal trash bag to giant, 42-gallon construction trash bags. The groupâs name âWealdâ comes from the old English language meaning âthe forestâ or âthe wilds,â and the goal of the cleanup is to keep the wild enjoyable and clear from human debris. ....
Don Yarbrough and Taisley Scroggin are on a mission to keep Paris trash-free. Yarbrough founded Weald Workers, an environmentally oriented group that focuses on removing trash around the city, and Scroggin works with him in an effort to not only help clean up the Paris community, but foster pride in their town. âI m excited about it. I want people to remember why we love Paris,â Scroggin said. Yarbrough formally organized the group in 2020 after years of picking up trash along the Trail de Paris on his own. Using social media, he recruited volunteers to come with him to help shoulder the burden of the taxing work. While heâs taken some time off during the colder months to account for the weather, Yarbrough said he hopes to be back by late February or early March, and he has lofty goals for the future of Weald Workers. ....