Nov. 16 was a beautiful autumn day for picking up trash from the Bear Valley Springs gate to Hwy. 202. Nine hearty individuals accomplished the whole, difficult route: Linda Coverdale, Lori Frear, Ingrid Lindquest, Cathy and Rick Rogers (not pictured), Dan Tordoff, Kathy Underwood, Karen Wells and I, Laurie Rude-Betts. Some of this same group, as well as other BVS residents, have also completed the roads and trails of BVS, while Caltrans had Hwy. 202, in its entirety, picked up. Please enjoy our beautiful, trashless scenery – and please do your part to not contribute to a large roadside trash problem which plagues greater Tehachapi. Help us show our community pride!