THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, July 2, 1995 TAG: 9506300227
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Eric Feber
LENGTH: Medium: 52 lines
Motorists driving down Interstate 64 toward Great Bridge between Greenbrier and Regent University see a bright orange caution sign at the left of the roadway.
What does it say?
Simply, ``These Lanes Ends.''
Hmmmm, it don't sound right, do it? Sporting trash
Members of the Deep Creek Ruritan Club were amazed at the kind of trash they plucked out of the water when they participated in a recent Clean the Bay Day event.
It seems this year's litterbugs were real sports.
``If members of the club ever thought about opening a sporting goods store, they could have gotten their initial sales merchandise from the water of Deep Creek,'' explained Earl Waddell, Deep Creek Ruritan Club publicity chairman.
Waddell said the club's 32 volunteers collected such items as footballs and helmets, baseballs and gloves, tennis balls and rackets, basketballs, golf balls and water skis.
The Ruritan clean-up crew also removed the usual junk from Deep Creek's waters, including 18 tires, an entire wheelbarrow, hundreds of bottles and cans and countless pieces of styrofoam and plastic sheets.
``They even found a bathroom sink,'' Waddell said. ``The total weight of the material collected in Deep Creek was 2,438 pounds.''
Waddell said clean-up coordinator Mike Kirsch explained most of the Deep Creek waterway trash appears to have been chucked into the water by motorists who travel across the bridges and waterfront roads in the Deep Creek community.
``This is a switch from previous years, when much of the trash collected was maritime debris from commercial and pleasure craft,'' Waddell said. A step in the wrong direction
From the People-Will-Steal-Anything Department: Did you see what someone stole from the 500 block of Shadowbrook Lane on June 18 or 19?
According to the weekly Crime Report from the Chesapeake Police Department, the take from a residential burglary was an entire stairway.
It must have been a second-story job. by CNB