Cleanup job

To the editor:

I am writing in hopes that we can put some pressure on stores to clean up their act. This weekend as we drove down our 31st Street — or “little JoCo,” as I like to call it — I was astounded by the amount of garbage blown into the fields behind the stores. I would guess that at least 75 percent of all the garbage was shopping bags and packaging.

All this garbage is getting blown past the fields and into the trees and streams downwind. It would not take much for stores in this area to send a couple of employees out there every morning to clean up the field. This job should not be left up to volunteers in the community but to the store that contributes to the mess in the first place.

Todd Johnson,

Lawrence