The PATH program might be best known for organizing community wide Trash Walks. But the program, which is now going into its third year, cares deeply for the health of the people in the greater Lake Martin area as well as the environment.
PATH has united schools, churches, businesses, and civic organizations in pursuit of their goal: to make the Lake Martin area the healthiest and most prosperous in Alabama within this decade.
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