Picnicers, yes. Trash, no. Please

I started this because we were seeing new and interesting things in the park every day. That doesn't seem to be true these days. We see lots of people enjoying the park, bagging tons of trash and putting it by the cans, and none of it gets picked up. there's no parks dept. presence to stop the few that do the nasty things - let their trash fly away, dump coal into the lake, etc. And the clean-up crews only empty the trash cans, completely ignoring days of overflowing.

Here's what should be done:

1. Pick up trash every day on the 3 day holiday weekends. Sure it may cost a little, the it's a lot cheaper than the bad publicity and outrage. People don't want to come to a park where trash is flying everywhere, where your kids can't walk around safely, where it looks like a dump. Unless that's the net ad campaign: HAVE YOUR NEXT PARTY AT THE DUMP!! Actually, that's what they did at the end of an ancient, wonderful film called My Man Godfrey." William Powell and Carol Lombard comedy set in the depression. At least there, they had cleaned up the actual dump and replaced it with a nightclub called "The Dump"

2. Have a few of those roaming golf carts with official park rangers in the park on summer weekends. They could even talk positively to groups about how important it is to stash those coals and fishing lines in the right places. Maybe even create a little good will?

3. Arrange to have the port-a-johns cleaned more frequently on the weekends. People actually use them, you know. No one wants to picnic near a latrine, so the less it smells like one, the better.

Bare basics, but I think it's very doable.