[RP TownTalk] The good old days!

[Vernon Archer]

Friends and neighbors,

Just a quick FYI, any person who is unable through a legitimate disability
to move their trash to the street will, as was previously the case, have it
picked up from their back yard.  We have a list of such individuals and it
is part of the contract that this service will continue.

Best wishes,

Vern

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:06 PM, <OurDollMom at aol.com> wrote:

>  Oh Audrey - you are so funny.  I remember those
> days.  I never could get my bag to the curb w/o
> it tearing up from so much trash & critters tugging
> at it.  Good Ole Days.   Em
>
>  In a message dated 8/5/2008 4:12:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ABragg7393 at aol.com writes:
>
>  Does anyone remember back in the good ol' days (1970) when the town
> furnished each household with a metal trash can stand.  In this stand was
> placed a *paper bag*  which was filled with trash.  The public works
> people would walk down your driveway, yeah its true, and pick up the paper
> bag and haul it away to the trash truck.  The town also furnished the paper
> bags.  All included in our taxes which were quite low back then.  We had
> fewer workers, trucks, staff then too.  It was wonderful not to have to
> worry about totting  trash cans out to the curb and actually made the town
> look better since there were never any containers lining the streets waiting
> for people to come home from work or getting out on the wrong day.  Then
> came the progress where we were instructed to haul our own bags out to the
> street.  Saving time and money here.  So, that wasn't so bad we got used to
> it.  Then came more progress.....those bags were getting messed up by the
> dogs and the birds and trash was getting all over so now we would be
> required to get a container which had to meet specific specifications and
> haul that out to the street.  OK, we did that.  Now we have progress again.
> I can't wait to see what 2020 brings for us!   Imagine.....no gas, so we
> have to wheel those containers to the dump.  I can see the little old lady
> (that would be me)  struggling down the East West Highway with my
> container.  I'm smiling happy I'm still here to witness the progress!
>
>
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-- 
Vernon Archer, Mayor
Town of Riverdale Park, Maryland
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