CHARLIE LAKE, B.C. — Rumble Industries held the second annual Vance Dancy Memorial Clean Up on the Alaska Highway last weekend.
Dancy passed away in 2020 at the age of 86 after working as a firefighter and spending his retirement cleaning up the Alaska Highway.
After his passing, Thea Rouble, managing director at Rumble Industries, and the rest of the team decided to start an annual highway clean-up in his memory.
She said the second annual clean-up went well, and volunteers picked up around three-quarters of a dumpster full of garbage from about the 271 Road to the Charlie Lake Frontage Road.
“We did both sides of the highway, and we had about 20 people, roughly, and then we did a big barbecue,” Rouble said.
Just like last year, the family joined the Rumble Industries team.
“I think it’s a really great way for them to remember their dad and their grandpa,” Rouble said. “He was someone who was such a staple in the community. You’d constantly see him on the highways.”
As people drove by on the highway, they would honk and wave at the volunteers, Rouble said, and some even stopped to say they remembered seeing him on the highway cleaning up.
“We’re one hundred per cent planning on doing it again next year, so hopefully next year we can get some more members of the community out as well,” Rouble said.
The Charlie Lake Conservation Society also held a spring cleanup in Dancy’s honour in 2021.
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