The Friends of the Lower Blue River, a volunteer group that helps maintain the Lower Blue, held a clean-up day along Colorado Highway 9 north of Silverthorne earlier this month. The group picked up trash and debris between mile markers 111 and 113, an area where the road follows the river closely and crosses it.

A news release from the group stated it found some interesting items, like a bed frame “stuck in the muck” down an embankment that was too difficult to remove. The pile of trash they collected was smaller than in past years, the release stated.

Volunteers also found a tire, a driver’s license, two credit cards, a “perfectly good glass pipe,” parts of cars, liquor and other beverage bottles and cigarette butts. The release included a request to keep the county clean and to dispose of trash properly.

“Just a friendly reminder from your friends in the Lower Blue,” the release stated. “Cigarette butts are toxic (and) not considered biodegradable, and since when does drinking and driving go together?”