Saturday, Oct 4, marked the quarterly trash attack on the south side of Bond Road by Kingston North Kitsap Rotarians and community volunteers. They gathered before their foraging under their sign near Starbucks.
Under state direction - don't pick up any dead animals (there were some of those) or needles - Kingston North Kitsap Rotary has laid claim to cleaning the south side of Bond Road from CB's Nuts into downtown Kingston. It is mostly all trash - spark plug wires, carpets, volumes of aluminum drink cans, discarded detergent containers - but sometimes there is a possibility of treasure, as Rotarian Mark Libby found.
Each segment of the sweep is covered by a team of two or three. Filling their bags to be left along the road for the state to pick up. Brian Stenejhem demonstrates.
No weights and measures staff is on site to judge the final tonnage harvested, but it is, no doubt, in the hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds. Knowing Mark Libby, our engineer, he could quickly run a calc and have a predictably good estimate. When you whiz along Bond Road, look to the south side, and thank Kingston North Kitsap Rotarians for a pristine roadside.