Trash Talk: 4-H sets example of neighbors helping neighbors

Let’s talk trash—trash and junk dumped on vacant lots without knowledge of the owner. It’s not uncommon in Bandera County for empty lots to be used as dumping sites. Here’s a case of one from just last week.

Adelina Castro, age 77 and recently widowed, owns a lot on Georgia Avenue in Lakehills. She was notified by concerned neighbors that someone had disposed of a dilapidated travel trailer on her lot. The Castros did not have the means to hire someone to break it down and haul it off to the dump.

Here’s where the neighbors stepped in to help. Ellinora, Esther an Ezra Groot are members of Pipe Creek/Lakehills 4-H Club. With help from their parents, Ace and Renee, the illegal dump became a project. The club raised the funds to buy supplies.