But when you burn it all, Very little room it» takes.

I guess this is all I have to say, I hope this takes in it all,

If you are ever through Baltic I would appreciate your call.

The Island is running out of tourists, Last year a lot of people came, Just ask for the Baltic Dump,

by Claire Vreeland August, 1977

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND —— “What can I give ya?” Amy Bryanton of Spring Valley greets most visitors to the Refuse Disposal area with this offer. What she offered us on 'a sparkling, blue and gold August day was a blue Rubbermaid sink mat, with a miniscule tear in one corner. “It could be mended with a bit of tape,” she suggested. Pushing a yellow construction

worker’s helmet back from her forehead, Amy revealed more of her genial face, framed with white hair.

Walking along the perimeter of the land fill excavation, she picked up a , blue dish-drainer. “Here you are. This goes with it, that makes it better.” i We declined her kind offer, telling her we had promised one another not to

wouldn’t take up much room.” Amy then took us on a tour of the area, the cleanest landfill operation we had ever seen. Amy was concerned about the

Boy Scouts in the area during July. What with Amy’s careful sorting and burning, only a small section of the area had been filled when the Boy Scouts had left. “We won’t use that much area in three months,” Amy told us. She was concerned about conservation of earth and water, and with the aesthetics at the land fill area.

Amy posed for her picture in a tiny park she had created near the en- trance to the dump. Red, white and blue painted bleach containers decorated with flowers hung from an umbrella tree created from a hay rake. The umbrella tree, a small lemon tree, and a decorated artificial Christmas

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