Hats off to adopt-a-road and parks’ litter program “cleaner uppers” and the excellent Feb. 1 article “With Vancouver trash, business is picking up,” on Clark County’s trash issues. I read it expecting to see acknowledgement of adopt-a-road and parks’ litter program’s impressive contribution by the over 30 environmentally concerned Clark County citizens, organizations and businesses who clean up after thoughtless litterers dump their trash on our roadsides. For example, the Salmon Creek Flyfishers group, in their first year, have picked up over 500 pounds of trash on their adopted stretch of road between Chuck’s Produce Market on Northeast 117th Street to Burgerville at Northeast 134th Street, along Highway 99 in Salmon Creek. The litter dumpers will probably never get it that they leave behind unsightly and perhaps dangerous stuff, something the rest of us are left to clean up.
Hats off to those who care for our community. They know they’re on the right path.
Ben Dennis
Vancouver
