Suiting Up

Yesterday 4-H members from across Alberta suited up to clean Alberta's highway ditches. This was the first year that my club participated in the Highway Clean-up Program. We picked up garbage along the 840 highway that runs through Standard where our club is based out of.
An important part of 4-H is community service and volunteering. Our club did receive payment based on the distance of highway cleaned, but it was still an act of service to our community. As we drove around that day you could notice a difference in the areas that had been cleaned and the areas that weren't cleaned. Highway Clean-up is a way to give back to the community that generously supports our 4-H club by providing facilities for events, supporting our fundraisers, sponsoring awards and purchasing our market animals at achievement day. It also lets us help the environment by picking up trash and collecting cans and bottles for recycling. Overall it was a great way to say thank-you to the community and the earth that provides us food and water for ourselves and our livestock.