Our community has proven its power twice lately, and we hope recent efforts only serve as inspiration for more efforts.

The Miss-Lou has learned time and time again that mountains can be moved with enough passionate hands.

Efforts to restore the Memorial Park fountain several years ago, create the Natchez Trails Project and begin regionalism talks come to mind.

Last weekend, two more projects joined the list.

Members of the Natchez-Adams County Master Gardeners, Leadership Natchez, Keep Natchez-Adams County Beautiful and Cathedral students and football players worked together Saturday morning to cleanup, prune and maintain one of our city’s most prominent thoroughfares that also happens to be one of the most recently neglected areas.

Neither the Mississippi Department of Transportation nor the City of Natchez has consistently maintained the extensive landscaping at the Liberty Road bridge near the Natchez Trace terminus.

It only took these volunteers — some totally untrained — a few hours.

Across the river, a group of volunteers was hard at work as well, raising an amazing amount of cash for a man in need, Shane Seyfarth.

To raise $15,000 from a one-day, non-annual affair that specialized in silly fun such as balloon animals and men dressed as women is a bit astonishing.

But it shouldn’t be. Small groups of volunteers in the community have done it before, and we know they’ll do it again.

Our people have power.