Not a ghetto

To the editor,

Doesn't the trash along South Meadow Lake Boulevard offend anyone besides me? I picked up four bags of trash along this road a year ago and wrote a letter to the editor about it. Nothing changed.

Yesterday I picked up the trash again, taking four hours to do it by myself and by hand. Then I took our weed eater and weed-whipped along the roadside on 13th Street.

We pay more than $1,600 in real estate taxes, and we don't have children in schools. Can't some of that money go toward litter clean-up?

We are expecting visitors from out of state soon, and I don't want to be embarrassed about all the trash they will see. I don't want them to think we chose to live in a rural ghetto. And that is exactly how things are beginning to look.

Please people—refrain from using the streets as your litter barrel. I think the best solution of all would be for the speeders and DUI and other offenders to be made to clean up the litter in our town, concentrating alongside the Super 1 Food store in addition to the payment of their fines.

Since so many offenders are repeat offenders, perhaps maybe they would learn their lessons, and the law-abiding citizens of this lovely town could show off Columbia Falls with pride.

Cindy Howell

Columbia Falls