Comments on: My Dream for an Organization that Helps the Homeless and the Environment

By: Sara Melnicoff

Sara Melnicoff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:13:29 +0000

I didn’t reread my post so there are typos. Sorry! Most of it makes sense.

By: Sara Melnicoff

Sara Melnicoff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:11:31 +0000

Six years ago, I started a Friends of the Parkway group here in Moab, Utah. We wanted the Parkway to be the focus upon which diverse groups and individuals could accomplish the same thing – keeping this beautiful land the the two creeks that run through it free of trash and recycling. Lectures, potlucks, and other good things flow from this. While doing cleanups, we noticed homeless camps here and there and about two years ago, we started working with the homeless that live/hand out on the parkway. Once a week I go meet whoever shows up and I pay them a small amount for the recycling they pick up from the parkway. Kristina Cassidy, who started the Hope Garden this year. (http://moabtimes.com/view/full_story/6660038/article-Hope-grows–local-woman-plants-garden-to-feed-those-in-need?) has been giving me soup and bread she makes using things from her garden to share with the homeless. We tried to get a shelter going, an idea that had a lot of support in the community, which would have created it, but the politics went against us on this one. If you go to our website, and click on the projects page, you can read about the Parkway Partners. It has not been updated lately, but it is ongoing. The folks I’ve met are very good people and they want to work. I hope our City will see the value and donate money to our group so we can have the Partners clean more of the parkway more often.

If you are on Facebook, and can find my page, Be the Solution (there is a photo of two women kneeling down, picking up broken glass) you’ll find a photo album called “Homeless in Moab”. Check it out.

I think the way a community treats its homeless says a lot about the community as a whole…

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:49:42 +0000

My father collects bottles to recycle them where they should belong – at the store where you bought them. The company that recycles does a less than efficient job of re-using the bottles than the original supplier of them. Consider yourself doing a good deed to the environment, and giving social welfare opportunities for those who have less. One day, hopefully, you won't have to pay for recycling, as it is in Canada where I am from.

By: TieDye76

TieDye76 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:47:20 +0000

I'm tired of homeless people rummaging through my private garbage. The bottle deposit should be repealed. I pay for the bottle deposit, the homeless and people on parole parade down my street and rummage through my garbage for cans. Then I pay the garbage company to come pick up the rest of the recycling. What do I get for the bottle deposit? Nothing but the joy of strangers rummaging through my trash.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:38:11 +0000

The zabaleen previously used to do that, and they weren't tightly held but operated on their own accord with recycling companies. The problem is people don't know their trash is 1-being recycled/reused 2- could possibly have been sold for a profitable price 3- could possibly be re-made and re-sold into the market for them to re-purchase!

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:38:11 +0000

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