{"id":28809,"date":"2020-06-22T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28809"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T14:38:24","slug":"clarksville-street-departments-adopt-a-street-program-fights-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/06\/22\/clarksville-street-departments-adopt-a-street-program-fights-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Street Department&#8217;s Adopt-A-Street Program fights Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clarksville Street Department looking for cleanup partners<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-460783\" title=\"City of Clarksville\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/City-of-Clarksville-2.jpg\" alt=\"City of Clarksville\" width=\"260\" height=\"72\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Clarksville Street Department is inviting individuals and organizations to help keep the community clean by participating in the Adopt-A-Street Program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_493171\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Clarksville-Street-Department\u2019s-Adopt-A-Street-Program.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-493171\" title=\"A new sign has been designed for the Clarksville Street Department\u2019s Adopt-A-Street Program.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Clarksville-Street-Department\u2019s-Adopt-A-Street-Program-480x299.jpg\" alt=\"A new sign has been designed for the Clarksville Street Department\u2019s Adopt-A-Street Program.\" width=\"480\" height=\"299\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-493171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new sign has been designed for the Clarksville Street Department\u2019s Adopt-A-Street Program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the program works: Volunteers adopt a stretch of roadway and agree to pick up litter along their adopted street. In return, the Street Department will post a sign with the name of the volunteer or organization.<\/p>\n<p>The Street Department also will furnish safety vests, gloves, bags, and signs for safety, and a department crew will pick up and haul off the trash.<\/p>\n<p>The program requires an application to be filled out and turned in at the Street Department office, 199 Tenth Street. Pick up an application in person, or print one from the Clarksville Street Department\u2019s page at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofclarksville.com\" >www.cityofclarksville.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The application is good for one year, and must be renewed annually.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers may choose from a list of adoptable streets, or request a specific street to adopt which must be approved by the department.<\/p>\n<p>For more, contact the Clarksville Street Department at 931.645.7464 from 7:00am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville Street Department looking for cleanup partners Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Clarksville Street Department is inviting individuals and organizations to help keep the community clean by participating in the Adopt-A-Street Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[34771,250,512,1740,825,34772,16602],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7uF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28810,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809\/revisions\/28810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}