Kitsap Mustang Club's
COMMUNITY INTERACTION
KMC's - Washington State Department of Transportation, Adopt-A-Highway Litter Pick-up Program:
In September of 1991, a member proposed the idea for KMC to adopt a section of state highway for our members to gather there and pick-up litter along side the highway a few times per year. The Board members liked the idea, so KMC arranged to have a representative from the DOT come in and give a presentation to our membership at a general meeting. We were given two choices of highway stretches to choose from. We decided on the 'straight and flat' length of Hwy 16, going Eastbound, between the Sedgwick on-ramp and Mullenix Road. The first litter pick-up was held on January 11, 1992. "B-R-R-R-R"! We faithfully gather three or four times per year, rain or shine, to clean-up our area! Our Kitsap Mustang Club's "Adopt-A-Highway" sign can be seen by all who pass by it, at the end of the Sedgwick on-ramp, heading East. So if you ever see us there (usually on a Saturday morning), with our neon-orange vests and hard hats on picking up "you name it", honk (nicely) or stop and lend us a hand. We have certainly found some interesting things along the highway during our pick-up gatherings! Plus, it gives us pride to see our stretch of highway looking so tidy when we drive by.
KMC's - "Lifeline" Women's Shelter & Local Food Bank Donations Program:
In January of 1998, member Cheryle VandenBerg generously offered her time and energy to become the KMC Charity Liason. She asks that each member bring a non-perishable food item to every general membership meeting to be donated to a local food bank. During our annual show, we advertise and collect non-perishable food items from participants to donate to local food banks as well. Any monetary donation is converted into food by Cheryle. Also...she suggests that in our members' travels, (which are plentiful to out-of-area show sites) we accumulate the little shampoo's, conditioners, soaps, and anything else that the hotels provide for us to keep. Cheryle donates these items to the "Lifeline" Women's Shelter in goodie bags that she puts together herself. She reminds us that when battered women take flight, usually it is alone or with their small children, but little else! So she also suggests donating diapers, toys and anything else you can think of that would be useful to these women when they enter the shelter to help with their needs. In 2001 Cheryle turned her duties over to co-member, Billie Malkowski to carry on the community work that she began for our Club.
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