Community Corner
Volunteers Clean Up Antioch Church Road In Southern Oconee County To Protect Rose Creek
Volunteers braved the cold to remove litter from the roadwise before it is washed into the creek.
Fifty volunteers, mostly teenagers, braved the cold Saturday morning to pick up litter on Antioch Church Road as a way to protect Rose Creek, which flows through the southern part of Oconee County before reaching the Oconee River at the Greene County line.
The litter, if not collected, would end up in Rose Creek, the organizers of the event told the volunteers.
The group had assembled at 9 a.m. at the parking lot of Antioch Christian Church on Antioch Church Road just west of SR 15. The official temperature was 32 degrees, but the wind chill was 24.
The volunteers had been recruited by the Keep Oconee County Beautiful Commission as part of the state Rivers Alive Cleanup, a program of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division.
For more on the cleanup, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Teenagers picking up trash.