Help Keep Folly Beaches Clean

Here are ways you can help:

• Take your trash with you when youleave the beach. If others who were near you have left trash behind, take theirs, too.

• Don’t leave food unattended orin flimsy Styrofoam coolers. The seagulls will close in if you’re not around andscatter food and wrappers all over the beach. Put something with weight on top of thecooler and/or keep food in a beach or lunch bag.

• If you walk on the beach often,take a trash bag with you and pick up what you find in your path.

• If you walk your dog on the beach,take along a baggie - there is a large fine for not cleaning up after your pets.

• It is illegal to have glass or canson Folly beaches. If you see someone breaking the law, maybe they don’t know the law. You could fill them in.

An Insult!!!

In a recent Post &Courier news article (June 2004), Folly was referred to as the "trashiest beach"in the area. It was on the front page of the Local News section. I have a couple of ideasthat might help fix this problem:

Other nearby islands place trash containers ON THE BEACH, as well as on thestreets. I think following their lead would be a good idea – at least during our busyseason. Send an E-mail to our Mayor, Vernon Knox and let him know if you think it’s agood idea, too.

Mayor Vernon Knox

vknox@cityoffollybeach.com

Local businesses could initiate an "Adopt-a-Beach" program andpatrol a certain area of our beach two or three times a week. If every business pitchedin, it would only involve a couple of blocks for each.