Nine people turned out early on an April Saturday morning to spend a couple of hours picking up trash along Temescal Canyon Road. Pictured above, from left, are Martin Lange, Spanish Hills; Tracy Davis, Wildrose Ranch; Bob Hafner, Horsethief Canyon Ranch; Rob Mucha, The Retreat; John Watson, Wildrose Ranch; Jack Wyatt, Trilogy; Jerry Sincich, Sycamore Creek, and Dave Davies, Spanish Hills.

Hafner, chairman of the We Are Temescal Valley Beautification Committee, said many more mini-cleanups will be held in the future. The area cleaned was along Temescal Canyon Road, from the I-15 south to Trilogy Parkway. Hafner said the effort netted two truckloads of rubbish estimated at 400 pounds.

The Beautification Committee meets at 7 p.m. on the Thursday prior to the second Wednesday of each month at Senor Tom’s Restaurant at Tom’s Farms.

Pictured at right, Bob, Tracy and Rob display some of the trash they found, plus a shopping cart and a couple of tires.

If you’d like to learn more about the committee, contact Bob at Bob.hafner@verizon.net. (Read related story HERE)