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our youth who, in many instances, are leading the clean-up campaigns.
Just last week, members of Cub Scout Pack 123, some of them local boys, took part in Project SOAR (Save Our American Resources) at Shenandoah National Park. Young people around the nation are launching similar campaigns. Just like tax dollars targeted for highway maintenance that end up in the litter ftind, though, it’s a shame that the energy and enthusiasm of our youth couldn’t be directed toward more personalized services. After all, if there were no litter, could these young people be helping an elderly people paint their home?
What can we do? What can one good citizen and taxpayer who doesn’t launch bottles do about litter? Perhaps we can follow the lead of our youth and get involved. Qur involvement would have to come during— and after— the fact, according to the Rappahannock Sheriffs Department.
If we witness some littering, we can take down license plate numbers and call the Sheriffs Department. Very few people do, however. That’s because involvement may take the witness one step farther—into the courtroom in order to testify.
Fines for littering can result, and certainly would serve as a deterrent. Other penalties serve poetic justice: A few years ago in Faultier County a judge ordered a litterbug to go out and pick up litter.
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