Earth Day gives Uptown Lexington officials reason to clean up downtown
The Dispatch Uptown Lexington Inc. Executive Director Jacob Gordon has a vision for the uptown area and that vision does not include trash. Uptown Lexington used Earth Day Thursday to assemble a team of 50 environmentally-minded residents and business owners to pick up 12-14, large bags of trash from the streets of downtown Lexington between 10 a.m. and noon. One person found pants. Another found a dollar bill. Cigarette butts were the most plentiful item picked up over and over. "That's a problem," he said of the massive amount of cigarette butts discarded by people in the downtown area. S...
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