The Winning Essay of the Midvale Lion’s Club Essay Contest
by Colter Miller
Something that infuriates me is I can be riding down the road to my house and see ten to fifteen different kinds of beer/alcohol cans and bottles scattered all along the roadside. To me, that is outrageous. But it doesn’t stop there. Besides around my house and in our town of Cambridge, there is so much waste along our road that by walking not even a quarter mile you can fill a trash barrel full. My hope is that I can eventually, completely clean up our town, but I can not do that alone. So together, we can do the clean up and use a camping motto - leave it better than you found it.
One idea is to expand the Cambridge town clean up day that is run by the F.F.A. We could increase it from only once a year to multiple times like in the spring summer and fall each time concentrating on a certain area of town and nearby areas. Another idea is that we could have people like my family and neighbors who live on the more rural roads be in charge of keeping their roads clean. For example, my family and I could, on the way home, stop and pick up some of the trash on the road. In doing so we might inspire our neighbors to participate.
In conclusion, these are only a couple of ideas that can improve, promote and encourage the clean up of our town. However as I have said before I can only do so much alone. I know that with more people on this project we can come together and have a cleaner and healthier environment.
