Please keep our Village clean

I am a resident of Fallbrook and love my little town. I love to drive down Main Avenue and it is the first place I take visiting friends and relatives. The parade is looked forward to yearly by my oldest son, and now his young brother, but I am saddened by the way the streets look after the parade. This year, like all others, after the floats were gone and the people were packing up to go home they forgot something as important as their lawn chairs and blankets: trash. There was so much trash on the ground after, I was so sad. I was happy to see it being cleaned up right away by workers, but the thought that trash could be so carelessly left on the ground to make our Friendly Village look like a discarded big city makes me wish that there were more people out there who cared what we try to represent here: a close-knit community with the appearance of our town always in our minds. Let’s try to do better here, guys! Don’t try to blame it on the kids, either, because if we see it, whether it is our trash or not, pick it up! Make an effort! This is our town!

I also want to touch on the opinion Ricky Lopez left in the 12/1/05 paper… “Latinos will dominate one day.” I think what he said is as much as a “cheap shot” and as negative as the person’s opinion that he was writing about “Hispanics bring trash to Fallbrook.” Talking about our president that way doesn’t change anything either. If it were so great in Mexico then Latinos would not be here, would they? Something must be good here.