Pubdate: Fri, 29 Apr 2016
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016 Postmedia Network Inc.
Contact:  http://www.theprovince.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: Jodie Emery
Page: 18

4/20 GARBAGE WAS NO ISSUE

As one of the organizers of the 4/20 Vancouver rally, I object to the
unfair portrayal of the garbage cleanup after the event. Every year,
volunteers clean up trash. After everyone is gone, we do one last
sweep and leave a central pile that the city picks up.

Park board chairwoman Sarah Kirkby-Yung was so eager to prove that
some kind of damage had been done, that pickup was delayed for a news
conference in front of our centralized mound of trash.

If a garbage pile is the biggest problem after 50,000 people gathered,
it shows 4/20 Vancouver was a great success.

Jodie Emery, Vancouver
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