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bama dave
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Keeping the lake clean
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8/11/2009 5:20:30 PM
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I've been lurking here since I started advertising, hope nobody minds. I have been following the post on trash on the lake. I, like everyone else, hates to see trash in the lake. Not everyone means to litter, stuff blows out of boats every once in awhile, but I place most of the blame on boaters and fishermen that don't live on the lake. I feel their attitude is they can't see it from their house. I live on Logan Martin and see my share of trash on the lake. It reminds me of the commercial with the Native American with tears in his eyes when he saw trash on the land. I started a program with my children and the neighborhood kids that play on PWC's and save the parents some money at the same time. It goes like this: all trash is worth points depending on size of the trash. Small trash=1 point, drink bottles=2 points, anything larger than a bottle= 3 points. 100 points = $1.00 My thinking is if they are picking up trash, they aren't going wide open, thus saving me money, and they compete to see who can pick up the most trash. What I have paid out doesn't come close to what I have saved in fuel cost. You ought to see the smile on the kids face when they bring in a load of trash. But the biggest accomplishment from this is I have passed on the desire to the kids to help keep their back yard clean. Before this, they would just go by the trash. I treat the lake as I do my yard, if someone threw trash in the yard, I'd pick it up. Well, the lake is my back yard so I pick it up also, not just the clean-up weekend.
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