Road salt distribution center
Odds and ends from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
Providence and some other communities are dumping far too much salt on some streets, some of which were bright white with it last week, amidst drifts of salt pebbles. This is toxic to plant life and pollutes water supplies. More care, please.
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Is it fair to make teachers at, say, Barrington High School have three COVID shots as a condition of employment while a few dozen students are allowed to attend completely unvaccinated?
While at work, he makes a neighborhood miserable.
Kudos to Rhode Island state Sen. Samuel Zurier, of Providence, for introducing a bill to phase out those shrieking and intensely polluting gasoline-powered leaf blowers that make life miserable for humans and other animals for weeks at a time. They’re often wielded by hard-working illegal aliens with no ear protection working for yard crews. Somehow we survived quite well without them for millennia.
Besides the much quieter electric leaf blowers, there’s that revolutionary device called the rake. A few decades ago, I and other teens made extra spending money raking, lawn mowing and hedge-clipping. Where oh where did those healthy gigs go? Why do so many affluent people feel that they must hire a “landscaping company.’’
