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Well its safe to say that the Clean-dezert.org Barstow cleanup was a complete success, from the amount of people that showed up and the mountain of trash the we gathered and removed. We would like to start off by thanking everyone who came out and volunteered thier time, and also sponsors such as:
FOX SHOCKS, AEM INTAKES, CAMBURG, GLASS WORKS, IRONCLAD GLOVES, RICHER RACING, DMZ FABRICATIONS, BTF FABRICATIOINS, PCI RACE RADIOS, RRP FABRICATION,
DEZERT NATION and everyone else who made this possible.
We counted 232 people who registered for the cleanup and know that there were some who showed up just to help out, and didn't get in on the raffle or rides. This was a noble gesture and appreciated by those that won some of the prizes!
Everyone that showed up was extremely pumped for this event and we couldn't have been more excited by the showing. Scott and the guys from Camburg showed up with the burg bus on Friday, and the guys from Richer racing and DMZ fab all getting there early to support the cause, thanks guys! With 20-30 people showing up Friday night, we knew we were going to have a good showing but were still a little nervous to see if our effort were going to pay-off.
When we got up Saturday morning we were greeted with a line of cars, trucks, buggies, and a Unimog and they continued to show up for more then an hour. We started the cleanup a little late due to all of the people that showed up but after they headed out, it didn't take long for the junk to start piling up at the dumpsters. As has become pretty standard in or deserts there was a lot of commercial and residential trash thrown in every nook and crannie of the Barstow OHV We did some spotting on Friday and Ray volunteered to to play rover to look for some of the worst area to give some assistance finding "junk gold" as some of the volunteers were claiming it!!!! We filled six dumpster in a little over two and half hours and could have used 5-6 more! People dragged in cars, mountains of tires, refrigerators, Couches, porn, Gallons of paint, roofing materials, you name it and it was taken from our deserts!
After the cleanup we prepared the food provided by Camburg Engineering and prepared for the raffle while the last few truck were coming back to camp! It was really cool to watch people break there backs all day, and then see some of those same people get to win some of the cool stuff that got donated. I personally noticed that the couple who came down from the Friends of Johnson Valley both won stuff, as well as one of the guys from the CORVA crew that come out.
THANKS to all of you for the support.
On Saturday night we did the usual desert fire-pit meet and greet that was topped off by the band COSTELLO from Huntington Beach playing on the back of Camburg Toter home. These guys were fun to watch and have a great sound, you should check them out if you get a chance. Thanks guys! You can check out there album on iTunes.
Sunday morning was a slow one as you could imagine, as everyone was pretty spent after the cleanup and staying out by the fire or a feverish game of beer-pong so it got off a little later then we expected (but this was a racing related event, so nobody was shocked!) We have quite a few trucks show up and would like to thanks the guys that gave all the volunteers a lap around the course! Dan Vance, Charles and Rob Anderson, Dave Leepr, Andy (green explorer) James hooligan, and everyone else who donated rides in thier vehicles.
Clean-dezert.org would like to also thank John Kavanaugh from the Bureau of Land Management for the assistance keeping this organized as well as helping to get stuff sorted out. We hope to have a long beneficial relationship with the BLM so that these events can continue to take place and having a guy like John who appreciate our efforts can only help that relationship!
Here are a list of winners from the raffle.
$1000 fox shocks- Tyler Shaw
KC lights- Billy Goodwin
Glassworks fenders- Andrea Pathiakis
AEM Intake-Gary Bosse
AEM Intake- Gary Grandt
BTF Links- Pat Schulthies
RRP Light Bar-Greg Dale
RRP Light Bar- Pat Ostlund
DMZ $300- Jeff Agnew
DMZ $150- Kirsten Sullivan
DMZ $150- Billy Goodwin
Trailglow HID- Corry Lewis
Richer Racing $300- Anthony Iwami
Richer Racing $200- Eugene Jackson
Richer Racing $100-Erik Medina
RSP Shock prep- Phil Robinson
RSP Shock valve-Lindsay Clowes
PCI Race Radio-Jen Rice
Threat Motorsports Light Rack-Billy Goodwin
PirateLab Bumper- Brad Beintema
There were tons of DVDs and shirts being raffled off as well. Almost everyone walked away with something at the event.
