Trash pick-up

Thursday, July 10, 2003

A dump truck sits at the Red Willow County road shop in McCook, filled to overflowing with trash collected by Work Ethic Camp offenders and road crew members Wednesday along three miles of county roads. The load includes -- amongst the general trash -- seven mattresses and box springs, a stove, a refrigerator, an air conditioner and ductwork, a couch, an overstuffed chair and a bar stool. "We could furnish a house, if we had the house," Red Willow County road crew employee Gene Catt laughed dryly. Maybe they could the pallets and odds-and-ends of lumber to build that. County commissioners are waging a war against trash dumping in county ditches, and encourages anyone witnesses the dumping to contact a commissioner or the county sheriff. Road crew member Bob Dike said most of the dumping seems to occur in the canyons and at the bottoms of hills, "so they're (those dumping the trash) hidden better ... so no one can see them do it."

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