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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Community Service

From today's Washington Post, Print Edition: March 27, 2012

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For several years without success, I’ve been asking the principal of the Montgomery County high school closest to me to give students community service credits for picking up the trash left along our roads by kids who don’t seem to get the negative impact that dropped soda cans, plastic bags and plastic foam containers from fast-food stores — much less assorted school papers — have on our environment.

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About 500 high school students walk past my community several times a day on their way to and from school, the nearby shopping center and their homes. It’s hard to believe the amount of litter that they generate and that their neighbors have to pick up.


To read the whole letter in the Post, CLICK HERE.P.C., Silver Spring

For more on this issue, read the Gazette article.

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