91st and Northern

[Pendulum]

Hey guys/gals, I'm from AZHT, and would like to attempt to clear the air on this whole trash issue at your 91st/Northern meet.

First off, thanks for allowing everyone to be there. Secondly, I can assure you that blaming everyone who's under 25 and/or drives a Honda is not the way to go about this.

I've yet to make it out to this meet, since I'm in Mesa but I can assure you that I personally don't leave trash anywhere. Not at a meet, not at my home, not on the side of the road, and 99.9% of my friends don't because anyone I see littering gets an earful.

The reason I decided to come on here was because yesterday, we had our annual AZHT Sedona Run. We meet at a shopping center in N. Phoenix, and all drive to Sedona from there. Because of the sheer size of the group yesterday, we were asked to leave the City of Sedona because we didn't have permits for a group that large :( So we headed to Cottonwood. That's 3 parking lots, in 3 cities, with over 250 cars in Sedona (N. Phoenix and Cottonwood were much smaller) and I didn't see any significant trash being left at any of those 3 places. I saw 1 AZ Iced Tea can as we left the N. Phoenix lot, which could have been there before but I'll go ahead and say it was probably an AZHT-related person. In Sedona, I saw no trash anywhere. In Cottonwood, it was the same. Even though the only trash can was clear across the lot, we all walked to it or put the trash in our cars.

Basically, what I'm saying is that maybe everyone should keep an eye on each group to identify the litterers. Make things more official, and organized if neccesary. Several of our members have offered great suggestions over at http://www.azht.net/forum/showthread.php?t=107969

Thanks.