Keep it clean Whitefish

While it is great to see all the people visiting our town and having a wonderful time despite the current state of the economy it saddens me to see the amount of garbage that is carelessly tossed to the ground from one end of Whitefish to the other.  Have we forgotten the basic rules of our childhood or are we not concerned with how this will reflect on our visitors?  Whitefish has always been relatively good about maintaining a level of cleanliness.  We have multiple containers around town and there is always an extra bin close by.  I would much rather have you put your trash where it belongs so I don’t have to explain to my daughters why some people are lazy, careless and ignorant.  It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly it angers me.

If you are a business owner and things are a little slow please consider sending one of your employees out to clean up any discarded material around your business.  It will benefit both your business and our community.  If we continue to let people trash our town it will become just another place where people vacation.  Not a town worth respecting.

— Jake Cook