Mayor candidate Jack speaks out | Letter

Published 12:25 pm Tuesday, July 1, 2014

As a candidate for honorary mayor of Eastsound, I have striven to maintain a positive campaign but I now feel compelled to engage in a little trash talk.

I have been campaigning tirelessly since Memorial Day Weekend and, in my travels, have noticed an unfortunate condition at the end of Haven Road.

Someone strategically placed a refuse container at this popular parking spot. However, for at least the past week, the container has been full. Rather than accepting that there is no more room for additional trash, people (at least I assume it is people) have been leaving bags of garbage around the receptacle. Therefore, what began as a thoughtful idea has now morphed into a thoughtless garbage dump.

I do not know what, if any, arrangements were made to empty the receptacle, but it clearly needs attention.

And to those who continue to deposit refuse there when clearly there is no room…please don’t…full means full.

I am an advocate for a clean town, but if this receptacle cannot be emptied regularly, then its well-meaning purpose is instead distorted, and that park-like area becomes a trash heap-which is quite unfortunate.

Jack “the canine”Curtiss

Orcas Island