Creek Volunteers Clean Dundalk's Election Sign Litter
Bread and Cheese Creek volunteers picked up and recycled 208 abandoned election signs.
The volunteers of Clean Bread and Cheese Creek are interested in more than just the health of an important Chesapeake Bay tributary. They want to live in a clean community, period. To that end, six volunteers from the group swept across Dundalk Thursday evening to pick up and recycle many of the election signs left behind by campaign workers who put the signs up but rarely return to take them down. Citing the leftover signs as an eyesore and a safety hazard, Bread and Cheese Creek President John Long said in an email to Dundalk Patch that the group picked up and recycled 208 signs and dozens of steel sign frames from which the signs had been removed. "It bothers me that many of the groups who placed the political signs talk about civic …
Doug
9:24 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Matt Why the negative comments about this hard-working group of volunteers? The article was written by Marge Neal from Patch. It made you aware of a trash problem in Dundalk, one that could be prevented. Environmental groups promote their cleanups. Many people "do the right thing everyday in the community", but not enough people to make Dundalk a trash-free place to live. More volunteers and … more ›