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try side. After the senior prom last Saturday, several carloads of youthful revelers drove to the top of Red Oak Mountain. Maybe they needed some markers to follow back down because, like Hansel and Gretel, they left a trail —only the RCHS students used beer cans instead of bread crumbs. Red Oak is a lovely place to party but it won’t stay that way long with this kind of uncaring attitude.
What can the civic minded individual do to stop this litter pollution and cut down on the tax dollars expended by the highway department to clean up roadsides?
With the help of our law enforcement personnel and the courts, those who care can mount a counter offensive against trashers. If they are able to jot down a license number and if they’ve had a good enough look at the driver of a litter spreading vehicle to be able to identify him or her again, a civic minded individual can get a warrant for the arrest of a trasher. Swearing out a warrant before a magistrate doesn’t cost money but it takes a commitment to appear in court to testify against the trasher for the action to bring results. Then it’s up to the judge to hand down more than a slap on the wrist to roadside polluters. A judge can sentence an offender to spend weekends cleaning up trash. It’s been done in neighboring Fauquier County. It can be done here. It will take this type of teamwork »vith a new “get tough” attitude before the trash tossing slobs in our society learn not to foul their own nests.
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