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2008 Easter egg hunt.
 April 22, 2008
10:00 am
 Ball Ground, Georgia		 Adopt-A-Highway Pictures...

Adopt-a Highway Trash Pickup

We will gather on 22 March at10:00 AM for the annual Easter trash pickup and Easter egg hunt. Please plan on coming out to help keep the Ballground portion of Highway 5 clean and attractive for passing mineral collectors and bikers. There may be an opportunity to collect small discarded pieces of marble in Nelson after the clean-up. We will leave from Two Brothers BBQ in Ballground after lunch.

Directions to the meeting place: Take 1-75 North to I-575 North. Go 35 miles to exit 27 (Bus.5) – the Howell Bridge Rd/Ball Ground Exit. Go right to the stop sign and left on Bus.5/Canton Highway.  We will meet 0.6 mile on the left, at the Thriftown/Conoco Station. Please park on the side away from the store. It takes about 30 minutes from I-75/I-575 to our meeting site.

Kathy Smart
770.426.4928
Adopt-a-Highway Chair
Top ten unusual items found during our highway pickups!
(In no particular order)
  1. Scratch off Lottery tickets - Tons of worthless tickets but a couple of $1.00 and $5.00 winners!
  2. Police Evidence Bag!
  3. New and unopened plastic box containing a new baseball cap!
  4. Upper and lower set of false teeth - (Separately found on different pick-ups)!
  5. A collector's edition Coke bottle!
  6. Drug pipe - fully loaded!
  7. Hypodermic syringes!
  8. Smashed cell phone!
  9. A small white teddy bear that still sang "Rescue Me" when you squeezed his belly!
  10. Hubcaps - Some that matched and some that didn't!
  11. Decorative motorcycle license plate holder.
  12. Underwear - ladies thong and men's briefs.
  13. Condom packages - opened and unopened.
  14. Hundreds of "Party Ice" empty plastic bags.
  15. More plastic grocery sacks than you can count!


GMS Trick or Trashers are Bill Waggener, Kim Cochran, Mary and Dylan Porter, Carl Ziglin, Frank Decaminada, George Libby, Tom Batcha, Terrie and Casey Sosebee, Lori and Charles Carter, Kathy and Elena Smart, Pam Martin, Ginger Peterson, William, Frances, Matthew, and Libby Fleck, Sebastien, Sandrine, Sarah, and Samuel Fuchs, and Lizabeth and Mickey McClain.
The GMS Adopt-a-Highway Trick or Trash Pickers
October 27th (2007) GMS held its increasingly popular Halloween Trick or Trash Pickup in Ballground, Georgia, along Highway 5. Her Grace Sister Mary Kim (aka Kim Cochran) and The Mad Hatter (aka Bill Waggener) led the motley crew of 24 along the one-mile stretch leaving a trail of 22 pumpkin-orange trash-filled bags. Traffic slowed to a crawl at times as drivers were doing double-takes and taking pictures of the big mustached nun, the axe victim, Gilligan and the Skipper, and the other costumed pickers. When we were finished Bill Waggener had door prizes for all, and we then had a great BBQ lunch at “Two Brothers BBQ” restaurant. Funny thing, though, none of the other patrons would sit near us! After lunch and re-energizing Farmer John (aka Charles Carter) led us on a field trip to nearby Little Garnet Hill to collect almandine garnets, and everyone collected lots of small but wellformed garnets. It was another very successful and fun GMS outing.

Mickey McClain
GMS Member

Photograph by Bill Waggener
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