LiveSmart BC Community Hero
LiveSmart BC Community Heroes: Lynn Way & Shirley Hanburg
Lynn Way and Shirley Hanburg embarked on a mission to clean up the community and raise money for pet care in the spring of 2005. The ladies decided on a win-win formula, patrolling the community looking for discarded bottles and cans, setting up recycle depots in some of the local businesses, and appealing to camps in the bush to bring in their recyclables as a donation. They have raised over $30,000 for the pet cause, helping out with veterinary costs for those owners who cannot afford the fees, and donating to the Dawson Creek SPCA, which also serves Tumbler Ridge.
That’s an enormous amount of bottles and cans, 358,000 approximately, that have not reached a land fill! Both women volunteer their time for the cause, and have earned the accolade of “Community Heroes.”
