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Commissioner DuBose: 'Stop accepting litter' "Stop accepting litter," said County Commissioner Patricia DuBose, the chairman of Clarke County Citizens Against Littering. "It's ugly. It does not have to be there. If we can get the public to stop accepting it, they will call in when they see illegal dump sites or they will even rally their neighborhoods to clean up. "We are so grateful for the number of neighborhoods who have taken on the issue of keeping it clean where they live." The committee met Nov. 1 at the county courthouse. The volunteer committee is a subcommittee of the Clarke County Development Foundation. "The sheriff has his crew ready to pick up litter on county roads," DuBose said. "We have named for him the roads we have cited as being the most in need." Those roads include Highway 69, Club Wiley Road, Love Road, Toddtown Road and Morning Star Road. An illegal dump site was also mentioned on Bethlehem Road. "…We have taken a threeprong approach to eradicating litter," she said. "it is education, enforcement and eradication." In addition, the committee has received the Governor's Special Award for the third year in a row from Alabama PALS (People Against a Littered State). They will share the award with Marshall County. "It's all due to the work of everybody," DuBose said. "…The committee is the winner." Evan Carden, editor of The South Alabamian newspaper in Jackson, was named by PALS as "Newspaperman of the Year." DuBose praised the coverage that area media had given the committee's efforts. The Governor's Awards Banquet will be Nov. 14 at Troy University in Montgomery. • Committee member Virginia Harrigan is working to get donors for the "Adopt a Mile" program on Old Highway 5 all the way to Thomasville. "That is one of the areas that the sheriff had spotted as being in need of pick up," DuBose said. • Rita Wilson talked about the need to remove unsightly mailboxes when no one is living at a residence. The United States Postal Service allows community leaders to remove old mailboxes, DuBose said, "and when a new family moves into the neighborhood, it will be the responsibility of that family to install a new USPS receptacle."
• The next litter committee meeting will be at 9 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2008 in the basement of the courthouse.
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