Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Adopt a Highway
Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Adopt a Highway volunteers gathered in LaSalle, Illinois, on May 13, 2026, to clean Route 6 and help keep the local community clean.
Don Wede: Okay, May 13, 2026. Here we are, the local Rotary group doing Adopt a Highway in LaSalle, Illinois, on Route 6 from 251 down to the bridge past Casey’s. What a crew.
We did our job today, cleaning up LaSalle. I think we’ve been doing this for about 15 or 20 years at least. We usually do it about twice a year, in the spring and fall. So this is our group here. Everybody pitched in.
Fire off names as we go here. Beth, left to right. My left to right. Beth Coleman, Mark, Tony Bassador, Jen Dudek, Mike Dudek, Stephanie Zowski, Mike Scoa, Jason Kirk — and your videographer for today is Don Wede.
All right, we’re going in one minute. Does anybody have anything they want to add? We got some time. Pick up the dead possum. We got a dead rat.
Fireball is a good one. Fireball, the drink of choice.
What did you say about the statistics? Yeah, anecdotally, I was going to say smoking cigarettes is down. Been doing this for probably close to 20 years. About 80% fewer cigarette butts. Yeah. There you go. Due to vaping, is my guess, because I don’t think people have stopped with their nicotine habits.
Whatever else — a lot of things, brownies, cookies, didn’t find any marijuana this time. Didn’t find any condoms. We have in the past. Had one vaping plugin, I guess you call it.
Well folks, unless somebody’s got some comments, I’m going to say good night. Sign off.
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