MOUNT GAY — Numerous people were arriving in force on Friday morning to have their old rubbish hauled off courtesy of a free countywide cleanup initiative.

The Logan County Commission's big cleanup campaign, which is in its second year, got off to a good start on Thursday and 16 trailers full of trash and debris were hauled away at the end of the day.

On Friday, cars were backed up out to the highway next to the collection site beside of Baisden Bros. Hardware Store. Once inside, vehicles were lined up three deep to be unloaded by five men and three women working on the project.

Logan County Administrator Roscoe "Rocky" Adkins said he expects this year's cleanup to be as successful as the past two.

"Actually, that site that Mr. Mike Ferrell was gracious enough to allow us to use has worked really well," Adkins said. "I think we're starting off as well as in past years and I'm going to expect that we're going to haul off as much this year as we have in the past two years."

One worker said the public had been helping out a lot in unloading the vehicles.

"They have been a big help, and they are actually making things move faster," one worker said.

Every sort of item imaginable from furniture to bathroom fixtures, to playground equipment to electronics was being sorted and hauled away. There was a small mountain of items like satellite dishes that kept growing through the morning.

A press release from the Logan County Commission said the county cleanup, will run through Saturday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. for the Island Creek area at the vacant lot beside Baisden Brothers.

All of the cleanups will open each morning at 8 a.m. and will close at 6 p.m. daily.

The cleanup will then move to Man the following weekend, starting on July 16 and running through July 18 at the old Man Hospital location. The cleanup will then move to Chapmanville at the Rock Quarry starting on July 23 and running through July 25.

The cleanup then returns to Logan on July 30 and will close on August 1, again at the vacant lot beside Baisden Brothers.

The county commission has held the cleanup for the last two years, taking in hundreds of tons of garbage and debris in an effort to clean trash from communities in Logan County.

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For more information, call the Logan County Commission at 304-792-8626.