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Let’s Talk Trash! Sound Familar?... As I walked down the hallway in my house, I stepped over something that was left in the middle of the floor. My mother noticed what I had just done and asked me why I didn’t bend down and pick it up? I replied, “it’s not mine.” Then my mother said, “The day you stop and take responsibility to pick it up, then I will know you have become responsible.” Boy did that give me food for thought! I felt like I had been treated like a little kid even though I was 14! From that day on, I began to take responsibility to pick up things when confronted with something that was “out of place.” The person who left ‘it’ was the ‘litterer’ and I was the person who ignored it, only to discover that I had to become a responsible person to remove and place the item into its proper place and inform the “litterer” not to do this again. Watch people today! It will amaze you as you watch them step over, around and ignore things, just like I did when I was a kid. What does that say about their responsibility? How about when you finish a drink or candy bar? What do you do with the empty can and
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wrapper, just leave it? Or do you take the responsibility personally to put garbage where it belongs? Years later... I became an art student in college and we were given an art project to create a “found object” piece of art. I was a bit confused as to what that meant, but quickly learned that is was a matter of a scavenger hunt to find things that were discarded on campus in the most remote and sometimes in obvious areas. Believe it or
Debbie Keenan The Keenan Group, Inc. Publisher Let’s Talk Trash! debbiekeenan@earthlink.net 615-746-2443 155 Keenan Court, Pleasant View, Tennessee 37146 Check out my special Editor’s note on page 4! I hope you enjoy this school-wide, year long Anti Litter Program. Now that all schools have their BEE Passionate Tennessee Cheatham wooden structures, it will be exciting to see what collection of litter each school will add to create art masterpieces! We’ve grown to 16 pages! More fun, more facts and more stuff! Thank you to all our sponsors who help make this project a true success. In each issue of Let’s Talk Trash! we will feature updates on this project. Become involved to stop littering in our couunty. It starts from early childhood!
not, I found a commode of all things, thrown into a ravine as well as an old tire and a street cone. As I dragged all of my found litter items back to the art studio, I was wondering what on earth would I do with this litter to create a piece of
art. Well, the bowl of the commode became a face and the tire placed over the cone became a Mexican hat. It looked sort of like this, but a whole lot better! I wish I had the picture to show the actual one, but you get the idea. See what beauty you can create with litter in the BEE PASSIONATE TENNESSEE CHEATHAM PROJECT! (see pages 8&9)
In This Issue:
SPECIAL FEATURES: - Bee Passionate Deliveries & Instructions- pgs 8-11 - Student Story - pg 14
- Color Contest Entries - pg 15 - Language Arts & English Litter Projects - pg 6 - Facts on Littering for kids - pg 7
- 2016 kids Resolutions! - pg 10 - Bee Facts - pg 12 ... plus puzzles, coloring pages and more...
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