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Petition urges
two trash sites
be kept open
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New« StmfT Writer
Anne Ellis of Scrabble presented the Board of Supervisors with petitions she said had been signed by over 900 people opposed to closing the Huntly and Scrabble dumpster sites at the public hearing Monday night.
Mrs. Ellis said the petitions had been in all but two stores in the county. She suggested that the Scrabble site could be fenced and people from nearby would be willing to police the site for a nominal amount of money.
Harold Parker of Sperryville said he is not able to get to the landfill during the hours it’s open except on Saturday. He said closing the dumpster sites would be the same a tax increase for him. “If I have a 20 mile drive I will spend more money. The net result is a tax increase,” he said. “That’s one of the few county services I use at all,” he added. v Frank Warner of Scrabble said he has mixed feelings about closing the dumpster sites. He noted that people are saying if the dumpster sites are closed more trash will be dumped along the roads. “That may be a self-fulfilling prophesy,” he said. He noted that the laws about what may be put in the dumpsters are frequently broken. “My preference would be to close it with reasonable alternatives,” he said.
Garfield Burke, who lives near the Huntly dumpster site, said he feels most of those who don’t follow the laws about what could go in the sites are from outside the county. He asked why the sites are no longer being policed.
Hubert Gilkey, chairman of the board, noted that funds for the deputy to police the sites were cut off.
Tom Junk of Sperryville said it was a waste of manpower to have the a deputy patrol the dumpster sites.
See SUPERVISORS, p. A-5
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