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We need to be more attentive to what goes on in our own backyard

Editor:

Editor:

According to World Wildlife Fund Canada between Sept. 17 and 25, 2011 is the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup week. The shoreline should be kept clean at all times.

An old used oil container half full floated it's way on my shoreline this spring. If this container would have cracked caused by condensation and fluctuating temperatures it would have been a disaster, as the creek flows into the lake at great speed in the spring.

This is when the swans, migrating birds, geese and eagles come and stay as it is one of the earliest open water available to them. The neighbour's dogs and kids play on the shoreline as well in the summer.

If you have anything hazardous, recycle it before it makes a mess on your property or someone else's.

If you throw something in the creek it lands on the shore e.g. cans & plastic cigar tips, which I have found two years in a row when berry picking. I noticed that someone had disposed, twice, of dead animals in the bush and close to residences that would attract bears.

We are worried about pipeline spills or think that Valdez was bad, but we need to be more attentive to what goes on in our own backyard. If you see something floating around get your binoculars out, it might be a used oil barrel coming your way.

 

Helen Brunette, Burns Lake