Weekly, the chair of your neighborhood association scours the streets and picks up the truckload of litter that careless passers-by are just too inconsiderate to drop into one of St. Catherine's many garbage cans. It's hard for her and the handful of people who help her, being the only BLOCK-WIDE ''litter police'', especially since it's scarcely a day until the street looks virtually the same.

We're in a bind here until the city decides to enforce litter fines like the county does in its more affluent and influential east-end neighborhoods. Until then, why not pick up around your neighbor's property as well as your own?

I know that many of you keep your own yards tidy, but simply extending your energies to adjoining yards would make the duties a little lighter and the neighborhood much cleaner. I am as fed up as you are with some people's laziness and negligence, but if we follow THEIR example rather than setting a better one of our own, the neighborhood will look like a landfill within a month.

Sound like a workable start?

By Michael Williams

Litter

Thank you for your srtaight from the shoulder words. Like you, my area, Beechmont, has a litte problem. We are bisected by the linear park Southern Parkway, which is a grand target for litterers with BIG trash to toss out. A lot of people walk the Parkway with garbage bags and pick up as they go along and of course, they pick up in their own yards but enforcement of the law would be a big help. I don't know if anyone has turned over litter that had name and addresses on it but I do know that has been used in other places. How effectual it is I don't knw but it is an adea.

Litter

Thank you for your srtaight from the shoulder words. Like you, my area, Beechmont, has a litte problem. We are bisected by the linear park Southern Parkway, which is a grand target for litterers with BIG trash to toss out. A lot of people walk the Parkway with garbage bags and pick up as they go along and of course, they pick up in their own yards but enforcement of the law would be a big help. I don't know if anyone has turned over litter that had name and addresses on it but I do know that has been used in other places. How effectual it is I don't knw but it is an idea.

Thanks, Elizabeth!

Well, it may be effective, and at any rate, yours is an intriguing suggestion. Sounds like it would work great on the big-time dumpings you're talking about...and why not the smaller ones as well? Since we have a group who pick up litter virtually every week, if a name and address recur, that might give us a place to start. At any rate, thanks!

By Michael Williams