Volunteers Needed! Ohio River Sweep on June 16th

Saturday, April 28, 2007, was LITTER-ally a bad day for solid waste along the Kentucky shore of the Ohio River in Rabbit Hash. An all-volunteer force joined in with Rabbit Hash Historical Society and the Boone County Public Works Department and Solid Waste Director, Mary Shinkle, to once again participate in the Great American Clean-Up, that annual rite of Spring in our beloved Boone County.

Collectively, we were able to account for over 3 tons of trash and garbage collected along Lower River Road and the riverbank, from the town of Rabbit Hash all the way down to the East Bend bottoms area, about two and a half to three miles total. That is 6,000 pounds of debris! That is 96,000 one ounce servings of solid pollution! Now imagine taking that yield for our isolated 3-mile tract and multiply that by every other 3-mile tract in our neighborhood, then by every neighborhood in our county, then by every county in our state, and then by every state in our country. No wonder we have global warming! All those discarded beer bottles and cans lying in direct contact with the sun absorb and retain an awful lot of heat, wouldn't you think?

By removing those 6,000 pounds of heat reservoirs, I bet we were able to cool down "The Center of the Universe" by at least one one-hundredth of a degree. Now do the math again. How much could we cool down our earth globally?

If these doomsday theorists and the panic-inciting, sensationalist-media chicken-littles would just lay off this Global Warming theory and concentrate on the Global Harming facts of the untoward effects of solid waste littering the environment, we would be a lot better off. Plus, we could even see, feel, hear, smell and touch the difference we make in our environment. Don't believe me? Come join us on Saturday, June 16, 2007 for the annual Ohio River Sweep and witness the difference for yourselves.

Don Clare, Jr.
Rabbit Hash Historical Society