CALTRANS TO PRESENT ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD
MARYSVILLE – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Adopt-A-Highway Program will honor the Maharlika Lions Club of Sacramento the Volunteer of the Year award for their outstanding efforts in keeping a portion of Interstate 5 clean. The group has been picking up litter along I-5 from the Mokelumne River Bridge to just north of Twin Cities Road for the past seven years and has been extremely conscientious in maintaining this area.
The award will be presented to the Miharlika Lions Club tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:30 p.m. at the South Villa Restaurant, 7223 55th Street, South Sacramento.
Caltrans launched the Adopt-A-Highway Program in October of 1989 and today there are more than 4,200 adoptions statewide with waiting lists on prime locations. Volunteers pick up letter from approximately 7,800 miles of highway, more that half of the State’s highway system.
Caltrans is a department within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency that operates and maintains California's transportation system under the direction of Secretary Sunne Wright McPeak and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. For more information about the department, please visit its Web site at www.dot.ca.gov. Information about the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency is available on the Internet at www.bth.ca.gov.
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For more information, contact Maharlika Lions Club President, Linda De Jesus at 916-424-0653 or the club’s Project Chairman, Eric Javier at 916-984-0984.