Letter – Who will take on the task?

Every year about this time I feel like a racehorse, pulling on the reins, ready to gallop over the
meadow…. ln my case, pick up my gloves, bags and get dirty to clean up the environment.

Unfortunately, old age put a limit to it, I can’t do it in grand style anymore, but a little around my
immediate area and if everybody would do the same our little town would look much better. Even at my
slow speed when I walk my senior dog, I have a bag with me and pick up as we go. The result each time
is mind-boggling. How can we be so sloppy?

With a heavy heart and almost tears in my eyes I had to pay my outrageously high oil heating bill and
was shocked about the garbage at Pinewood Drive, both sides. lt was always the first place we started
our yearly cleanup.

Who will be brave enough to take on the task and haul loads and loads out of
ditches and roadways?

My plea as it always was: please be respectful and stop littering.

Karen Grundt
Garbologist at Heart

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Karin Grundt

Karin Grundt began cleaning Wawa's 'Welcome Mat' the ditches and embankments along Highway 17 & 101 every spring for the last 27 years. Thousands and thousands of bags of garbage have been collected, and thousands of recyclable reclaimed. Not to mention the heaps of beer bottles, liquour and pee bottles that join that collection. She has a simple message "don't litter".

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