On Saturday, Sept. 7, residents from all over the Carbon Corridor gathered for the United Way of Eastern Utah’s annual day of caring. During this event, citizens volunteered to take on projects both countywide and local to promote the betterment of our community. Castle Country Radio sat down with Price City Council member Layne Miller to discuss the impact the Day of Caring had on the community.

The first topic Miller discussed was the massive turnout from the community,” We don’t keep records of how many people participate, but a good way to judge is how many people show up for breakfast. Lin’s sponsors the breakfast, and according to them, they went through 250 doughnuts and 12 bagels.” Miller continued, discussing outside help that participated,” It was also mentioned to me that the breakfast doesn’t count church groups. There were church groups from Helper, Wellington, Price and Emery County. They do their own day of caring and they don’t come to breakfast. So easily, three or four hundred volunteers were out, scaring the heck out of weeds in Price. And what a great thing that is.”

Miller then talked about the different projects that participants undertook. “ We had projects at Cove Basin, in North Price and at private residences. We worked on the trailhead on Carbon Avenue, and Pam (Boyd) mentioned that they didn’t have nearly as many weeds to take care of there. So a big thanks to the Price City crews who take care of that. She said that the crews did an amazing job on the trailhead to keep the weeds down.”

Miller continued his high praise of the Price City Weed Department and the volunteers,” the number of weeds we do is all based on what kind of funding the parks and the road department have. And this time of year, the weeds have a jump start. And you know, if our weeds are only an inch or two high, nobody notices. But by September, they can be upward of a foot, foot and a half tall, and then everybody notices. So this time of year, weeds are a big, big issue.” Miller explained,” The public works department, they’re the ones that work on it and they do the best that we can. But because of the volunteers, we can make them look a lot better.”

Closing out our discussion, Miller shared the following,” I think we should always be aware of weeds. If you have a neighbor who needs some help, get hold of your kids and your grandkids and get over there and help them out.”

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