LEFT BEHIND.

   SATURDAY, JANUARY 9TH.

            LEFT BEHIND.

    If the thought of hundreds of
thousands of people gathering
together on Times Square on New
Year's Eve has you impressed,
consider this.
    Each January 1st some 200
New York City Sanitation
Department workers come to the
same location to clean up over
50 tons of trash left behind by the
revelers! By 8am there's no sign
of the confetti paper, pizza boxes,
streamers, popped balloons and
empty soda bottles littered on the
streets and sidewalks.
    Westminister Road is literally
a rural road not far from my home
where I walk occasionally. It would
probably take a year for the number
of people who were on Times Square
to pass by the houses and forest
along that road. But it looks as if
they were here and left their junk
behind!
     There's all kinds of trash tossed
into the woods just off the road as
if the forest itself were a landfill.
The only thing you're unlikely to
find is aluminum cans. Somebody
has taken the time to recover those
since they can bring in some cash.
     I wonder if we could borrow a
couple guys from New York's
Sanitation Department for about
an hour or two? It would be so
great to "reclaim" the forest!
      Hope you're using the Trash
can and that all your NEWS is
good!