This morning, there was a nice company-wide email from New Pigger Justin Stroup (pictured below) thanking the volunteers that he had gathered to come out on Saturday morning and help clean up New Pig’s adopted section of nearby Route 220.

Specifically, besides Justin, his wife & daughters and yours truly, there were Bob Lamborn & his daughter, Lynette Whetstine, Charlie Gibbons and Roger Podelco.

We filled roughly 45 garbage bags and collected several tires, signs, and other larger scraps. The road has never looked better.

It really is a “crazy ’bout clean” thing to volunteer to do, the camaraderie is great, and it’s an overall fun little work-out.

The next trash pick-up will be in the spring, probably April or early May. If you’re swinging by One Pork Avenue and coming from the direction of Bellwood, notice the new Adopt-A-Highway signs along the road that say NEW PIG CORPORATION!

P.S. Here are some New Pig products that come in handy for highway litter control:

Traffic Vest

Canvas Single Palm Work Gloves

Seamless String Knit Gloves

New Pig’s address has been One Pork Avenue from Day One, but now it feels more official than ever. The county 911 system has been gathering street and road names lately (and changing some, and sometimes getting dramatic reactions) and fortunately they accepted “One Pork Avenue” from us.

That’s data that Google uses, and after only (!) two months, we’re now showing up on Google Maps with our semi-famous address! We’ve arrived!

George Boutilier has invited everyone to visit this special blog. Here is George in email:

This is a site my wife has started to let everyone know and share in our 3-year-old’s journey toward hearing and now toward speech. She wanted to share this with anyone who might have questions or concerns about their own children. This has been an ever-increasing problem in our area with children, and most people don’t know where to turn. She has put a lot of time and hard work into getting him this far in the last 14 months since his being diagnosed almost completely deaf from birth. I would appreciate your taking a little time and going online to check this out.