Finding themselves socially isolated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Iolans Marsha and Kenneth Storrer felt at a loss as to how they could help their community.
So they became Good Samaritans to the environment.
On Monday, the Storrers spent much of the day scouring the roadside ditches near their house for litter and filling their all-terrain vehicle with refuse, “just to make the county a little cleaner,” Marsha said.
The impetus came during a morning walk, when Marsha noticed a large collection of beer cans strewn along New Mexico Road.
“We just figured we needed to do something,” Marsha said.
So she recruited her husband, grabbed some gloves and started picking up trash.
She hopes to spark similar endeavors with others.
She encouraged volunteers to wear protective clothing, “and you can work on opposite sides of the road to keep your distance from each other,” she said.
Marsha’s dream is that once the stay-at-home orders are lifted, and residents resume their normal lives “that we have a much cleaner county when it’s over.”
