Community Development District 3 Supervisor Bill Ray now carries a trash bag with him on his daily one-hour walk in The Villages.
His recent treks have netted more than 150 glass bottles and aluminum cans, food wrappers, Styrofoam containers, 250 cigarette butts and even a cast iron skillet. Ray has been performing his regular trash pickup in CDD 3, which includes the Villages of Belle Aire, Glenbrook, Polo Ridge and Summerhill. He said he is finding a lot of discarded trash near Savannah Center, at the postal stations and at pools, particularly the Summerhill pool.
“It’s sad. But these cans and bottles and stuff are obviously being thrown from golf carts into the shrubbery,” Ray said during a report to his fellow CDD 3 supervisors at Friday’s monthly meeting at Savannah Center.
“I think it makes sense to keep our district clean,” Ray said…