If anybody wants to do something for the community on their own schedule, here is an idea. There is a street near my house, roughly five blocks where I pick up trash. The city has an “adopt-a-road” program, but I’ve never bothered with that. I just pick up trash. It’s useful, good exercise, and if you do it long enough you become a fixture.
One person insisted on giving me a donation to cover my costs, even though I told him I don’t spend anything beyond my kitchen trash bags. I accepted with thanks and passed it along to the Food Bank, as I had told him I would.
You need to respect property lines. You need to know what is really trash and what needs to be set out for someone to retrieve or re-home. But it makes a difference, however minor, and we can always use more fixtures.
— Pam Siegfried
Anchorage
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