DeSoto residents sweep out the old in spring cleanup
Williams Nave, a DeSoto County employee, helps Neil Smart off load a filing cabinet to discard at the Lewisburg Primary School waste bin. DeSoto County officials will be leaving waste bins at 14 sites through March 23 for household products that do not fit in the smaller garbage containers. (Toni Lepeska/Special to The Daily Memphian)
A man hoisted giant, black garbage bags over the edge of a huge waste bin at Lewisburg Primary School while Jon Coller pitched leftovers of DIY projects over an adjacent one.
It was Coller’s second visit to the site last weekend during the start of DeSoto County’s Spring Cleanup Week, spanning nine days.
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Toni Lepeska is a freelance reporter for The Daily Memphian. The 34-year veteran of newspaper journalism is an award-winning essayist and covers a diversity of topics, always seeking to reveal the human story behind the news. Toni, who grew up in Cayce, Mississippi, is a graduate of the University of Mississippi. To learn more, visit tonilepeska.com
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