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03/14/2006 Archived Entry: "Jae Leslie Picking Trash"

Madison fan Jae Leslie Adams has been picking up trash and stuff on her daily walks, thereby making her environment a bit better every day. "I am walking for my health, and I am picking trash because I hate looking at that shit. Today I decided I have to limit this to fifteen minutes of my daily walk, because there is an awful lot of trash out there, and I cannot spend enough hours bending over repeatedly to pick it all up. Today I picked all kinds of trash for fifteen minutes along Wingra Drive, left that bag in the park trash barrel, and then kept on picking up recyclables all the way around. Emptied my bag twice in recycle bins along the way that had been left on the street (because the student renters often haven't quite figured out how our new wheelie bin pickups work), and arrived home with two more full bags. The plastic bottles and aluminum cans aren't so bad, but the beer and liquor bottles weigh more than I want to be hauling around. I scouted a great many more stray plastic bags waiting for me to fill them. It was a beautiful day well into the fifties! The snow is not yet gone! so there is plenty more to come! A group of Canada geese were standing on the ice in Wingra Creek, reflected in the open water nearby, and it was such study in grayscale and browns that I stopped to look."