Over 160 BIG bags of trash and 4 tires were collected along a four mile stretch of roadside in the historic Coal Creek community.  The largest number of volunteers were made up of students  who participated in learning to take care of their own community.  Maybe the students can teach others not to trash our world.   Along with community members and students, volunteers included Anderson County inmates and members of the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF), Clinch River Trout Unlimited, the mothers and grandmothers of the students, and folks who just think this is a precious area worthy of being clean!

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Volunteers gather at Briceville School
before they get started cleaning up the highway

Volunteers gathered at Briceville Park for fellowship, awarding prizes, and the famous cooking of the Briceville ladies.

Area ladies did some home-cooking for the volunteers to reward their efforts in making Coal Creek more beautiful

Bolinger, Tammy
Brown, Steve -- Clinch River Trout Unlimited (CRCTU) (CCWF)
Burris, Kathy
Byrge, April -- Coal Creek Scholar
Byrge, Sarah-- Coal Creek Scholar
Daugherty, Della (CCWF)
Douglas, Terry -- (CRCTU)
Gregory, Bob -- Anderson County Library Board
Hayes, Jessica-- Coal Creek Scholar
Hayes, Mildred
Leinart, Kippie
Leinart, Kyle-- Coal Creek Scholar
Leinart, Nora
Long, Krystina-- Coal Creek Scholar
Moore, Carol-- (CRCTU) (CCWF)
Morehead, Sheila
Morgan, Mark
Naik, Dhara
Patterson, Melinda-- Coal Creek Scholar
Pemberton, Rachel
Phillips, Cassie
Phillips, Charlotte
Phillips, Jared-- Coal Creek Scholar
Phillips, Jennie-- Coal Creek Scholar
Phillips, Rosemary (CCWF)
Powers, Payton-- Coal Creek Scholar
Roberts, Jeff
Smith, Phillip-- Coal Creek Scholar
Sparks, Margie
Street, Arielle
Thacker, Barry -- (CCWF) (CRCTU)
Thurman, John-- (CRCTU)
Tinker, Brenda -- (CCWF)
Vandergriff, Ryan-- Coal Creek Scholar
Vandergriff, Tyler-- Coal Creek Scholar
Widener, Nathan
Wollard, Ron-- (CRCTU)