The business makes perfect sense to each of the Sullivans.
“I’m tired of taking trash to the dump in my new car,” Lori said about her concerns to keep her white Ford Excursion shiny and new. The waste transfer site nearest to the Sullivans’ home on North Fork Road is at the Anchor Point waste transfer site, a distance of four miles.
Starting his own business was Keith’s motivation.
“I was working for other people, trying to find a business that would go in Anchor Point,” Keith said. “Working someone else’s schedule all the time gets old.”
Positive feedback when they discussed their idea with friends and neighbors fueled Keith’s dreams of independence and Lori’s dreams of a clean vehicle, and they decided the time was right to put their plan in action.
“We’ll start with doing roadside pick-up every two weeks,” Keith said of the personalized service offered by Anchor Point Trash Service and its 1995 four-wheel drive Ford pickup and trailer. “We can make special arrangements with anyone who needs more frequent service.”
The area targeted by the Sullivans is the same geographic area as the Kenai Peninsula Borough Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Service Area. There are approximately 2,200 residents within the service area’s north boundary at milepost 144.5 on the Sterling Highway, a south boundary at milepost 165, which is eight miles north of Homer, the 18-mile loop of North Fork Road and the village of Nikolaevsk. This is an area familiar to Keith who is a volunteer firefighter and driver at the Anchor Point Fire Station.
As a commercial trash-collecting business, Anchor Point Trash Service will pick up customers’ waste contained in trash bags and deliver it to the Homer Baling Facility every two weeks for a monthly rate of $25. Items too large to fit into a trash bag will be considered by the Sullivans on a case-by-case basis. Recyclable items already sorted by customers will be deposited in the appropriate area of the baling facility. A list of recyclable items accepted at the facility is available on the Web at www.borough.kenai.ak.us/solidwaste/Informational%20Pages/HBF.htm.
And if business goes really well and they have more customers than the pickup and trailer can handle?
“We’ll use Lori’s Excursion,” Keith said, laughing.
For more information about Anchor Point Trash Service, call 226-2626.
McKibben Jackinsky can be reached at mckibben.jackinsky@homernews.com.
That is exactly what Keith and Lori Sullivan of Anchor Point are hoping, as they start up Anchor Point Trash Service, complete with a pickup and trailer to cart away items no longer wanted by residents of the Anchor Point area.
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