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Formalization of Trash Free
Rappahannock may help problem.
The organization of the Trash Free
Rappahannock program into a non-profit establishment
of the same name bodes well for the group’s objectives. Certainly, past efforts by John Kiser, Buck Payne, Hunt Harris and hundreds of others in Rappahannock have resulted in cleaner highways and byways, at least for a month or two. One would expect that the presence of a more formal organization behind the program could extend that Rappahannock cleanliness by months at a time, until we could look at roadside litter (or at least unremoved roadside litter) as a relic of the past.
What can a formal organization do that a wellmeaning group of individuals cannot? For one, especially if that organization is a recognized exempt 501(c)(3), one could expect significant increases in funding, both from contribution and grants. If properly used, that additional funding could be effective. Applied to education, of the county’s children and adults and visitors, it might just prevent five out of 10, or someday nine out 10 people from being careless and uncaring with their trash. Applied to services, maybe private funding could restore some distributed trash collection. Applied to community outreach and input, a little money could go a long way toward assisting the community in developing solutions that might assure Rappahannock trash-freeness forever . . . or at least a means of routinely removing new trash left along a roadway by an uneducated visitor.
We at the Rappahannock News welcome the Trash Free Rappahannock organization and applaud its establishment, and we look forward to assisting in keeping the county trash free.
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