On April 27, 2019 as part of the May River Cleanup, some of us volunteered to pick up garbage around Red Cedar Elementary School. I wanted to let you know that we found DOZENS of empty ‘airplane’ bottles (mainly Fireball brand) up to full size liquor bottles a mere 1/2 block from the school on both sides of Persimmon Street, but mainly on the wooded side.
We patrolled the same area last year and found HUNDREDS of liquor bottles and were curious if we would find as many this year. We did take the 2 full bags of bottles we collected back to Oyster Park last year and showed them to a Town Council Member. Luckily we didn’t find as many this year but it is still alarming given the proximity to the school and the dance academy. I just can’t let this go without mentioning it to the Town again.
One thought I had would maybe be a camera on the newly built Optic Eye Center would catch those doing this...
Thanks for providing this platform to air these problems online!
Gretchen