Let’s talk trash—trash fecklessly flung from vehicles by reckless road raccoons. And let’s talk about how one community worked to clean it up.
Mike Stiborik and his neighbors from the new Bridlegate Ranch were fed up with people throwing trash out as they drove by their subdivision along Bottle Springs/English Crossing Road. Since trash pickup along a road right-of-way is not a service provided by the county, they knew it would require neighborhood volunteer action. In January of 2022, they organized a dozen neighbors for a road pickup.
Mike led the Bridlegate residents to the County Commissioners’ regular monthly meeting and proposed a voluntary road-adoption program for county roads similar to the one that the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) had been doing since 1985 on state highways. More than 3,800 groups of volunteers are reported as participants in the state’s Adopt-a-Highway program, 26 of them in Bandera County.
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