Volunteers Make Sure Rally Site Gets Clean

FAYETTEVILLE — Volunteers swept away the last traces of Bikes, Blues & BBQ early Sunday morning.

A few bikes still rolled down Dickson Street, but by mid- morning most of the celebration was packed away as workers packed away fences and tents.

Teenagers from Lincoln High School started their day at 8 a. m. in the parking lot across from Baum Stadium; by 10 a.m. that lot was clear and they started in on Dickson Street.

“It’s good for our kids to get out here and be a part of the community,” said Brad Harris, football coach at Lincoln High School.

About 60 people, football players, and boys and girls basketball players and parents, came out to clean up the mess. They get a small donation in return, but the day is about giving back and learning some life lessons, Harris said.

“I’ll never throw my trash on the ground again,” said Madison Rothrock, senior at Lincoln High School.

Her cousin Ashtyn Rothrock, sophomore, said she will be more respectful of people who have to pick up trash in the future.

Teens said they found flattened Twinkies across the Baum Stadium lot, a little trash and a ton of cigarette butts.

Lincoln football players said the day was a chance to show their work ethic. “Hard work beats talent, but talent doesn’t work hard,” they chanted quoting Harris.