Some of the volunteers who participated in the Jemez Riders Motorcycle Group’s cleanup Saturday on the Main Hill Road pose with some of the trash they collected. Courtesy photo

Two volunteers pick up items of trash varying from items to clothing to diapers, cans, bottles and pieces of siding alongside the Main Hill Road Saturday morning. Photo by Maire O’Neill/losalamosreporter.com

A volunteer watches out for traffic near the White Rock rock intersection on the Main Hill Road Saturday morning. Photo by Maire O’Neill/losalamosreporter.com

Jemez Riders Group chair Richard Sturgeon heads up the Main Hill Road Saturday morning to place a traffic safety cone during the groups clean-up. Photo by Maire O’Neill/losalamosreporter.com

BY MAIRE O’NEILL
maire@losalamosreporter.com

It took some 7 ½ hours Saturday for members of the Jemez Riders Motorcycle Group and others to gather dozens of bags of trash from the Main Hill Road Saturday.

“We’d like to thank all the volunteers that showed up for the event.  We’d also like to thank the Los Alamos Reporter for always supporting us. We had some amazing Los Alamosians who gave up part of their weekend to help clean up this special area leading into and out of our town,” said Richard Sturgeon, chair of the group.

Sturgeon also thanked motorists passing through the area from the Anderson Overlook to the White Rock intersection for their patience.

“ We caused a little bit of delay at times but we think it was worth it,” he said.

A column written by Sturgeon, which was published in the Los Alamos Reporter, What Is Wrong With Us?  has drawn a lot of attention.