Thinking of Thanksgiving brought Julie Richardson’s name to mind.
She was the Lakewood Village President when Lakewood banned leaf burning.
In times past one could have almost zero visibility driving down Lake Avenue, the main drag in the part of Lakewood that is an oak-hickory forest.
Those were the days when one could not leave one’s windows open at night if one had asthma.
That would result in a night of coughing.
In any event, thanks to Julie Richardson for leading the fight for clean air.
Twenty-five of those accursed bags for this day’s 2011 pickup.
On a related subject, after the Illinois legislator banned all open burning when Governor Richard Ogilvie was in office in about 1970, Lakewood hired Veuglar’s garbage disposal company.
It collected leaves raked to the edge of ones property with a big vacuum.
Instead of bagging leaves, I’ll bet a lot of Country Club Additions Property Owners Association residents would be grateful if Lakewood could again figure out how to provide such a service.
Just another useless thing the “government” forces us to do.
I have composted ALL my leaves since back in the early seventies.
Oh, that’s right; self-sustaining is frowned upon by “government”.
They have to force you to abide by their contracts that they made FOR us with recyclers.
(Think monopoly.)
I am so glad they are there to take all of our money illegally in order for them to tell tell us what to do with our pitiful lives.
Who can survive without their infinite wisdom?
The fastest way to dispose of fallen leaves is to mow them with a mulching lawnmower and just leave the shredded leaves where they fall on the lawn.
If the leaves aren’t shredded enough in the first pass, just make another pass.