Mark Sroufe, park superintendent at Lake Afton, says that even though crews clean up the park every week, trash is especially a problem at that swimming area. People don't pay to use it. And when something is free, they really don't care. But if some folks won't care, even when the trash is right under their feet, well, that's no excuse for the rest of us. We owe it to ourselves and each other to do what we can to have a reasonably clean park.
People treat areas they pay for with more respect.
What a shame. L. Kelly, an Eagle editorial writer, writes a personal column for the Op-Ed page on Thursdays.