The children in the No Name Pond area are learning a bad lesson about trash from some adults and older teens they don’t even know. The children are picking up after them.

The children must wear gloves. The adults pickup the trash that the children are not allowed to touch.

The owner of a parcel of land on the water did a recent pickup with a shovel, as some of the garbage was at the shoreline and in the water. For a number of years, he has allowed the public to fish, swim and access the water from his private property.

Along with bottles, cans, worm containers and fast food trash, there were condoms, dirty diapers, wipes, underwear, part of a bathing suit, human and dog excreta, lots of used toilet paper, tissues, the usual cigarette butts and empty packs. If only butts could be recycled at a penny apiece. Trash cans are simply overturned.

It is difficult to understand how some of those who come to enjoy the pond are willing to come back to fish, sun and swim in their own trash. What do their yards and homes look like? We are grateful to those who take their trash with them.

Unfortunately, as the abuse of property increases, the innocents may lose these privileges along with the abusers. Residents in the No Name Pond area are beginning to come together to find solutions to the trashing of private property, neighborhood roads and a beautiful pond.

Jeanne Bagshaw-Raymond, Lewiston

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