Dec 29, 2014 2 min read

Doug Sheets made it his mission to refurbish the Joint Service Club’s welcome signs around Washington County when he took over as sign committee chairman, and four years later, he can finally say mission accomplished.

The Joint Service Club committee was started in 1979, and since then, its mission is to maintain club signs around Washington.

The Joint Service Club currently has five signs around Washington County, built about 35 years ago when the original chairman approached property owners with the idea to create them.

The signs were to “promote organizations and promote the city,” Sheets said.

Each sign was placed at a different location: one was placed on Murtland Avenue, one was placed on East Maiden Street, another was placed on Jefferson Avenue and another was built on Henderson Avenue. A final one was placed near Chestnut Street.

Harsh winters are difficult for the signs, and Sheets said he took it upon himself to “clean them up and make them look a lot better.”

The signs were cleaned and pressure-washed, stained and fixed with funds from the $50 donation each member club paid to be a part of the committee. The signs were worn and dirty, according to Sheets, when he came in as chairman.

“They needed cleaned up in general,” he said. “It took (four years) to refurbish the five signs. We finally succeeded. (We) finished the last one the other day.”