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date Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:48 PM
subject Trash at Foothills Swim & Racquet Club

Kent Cristy, Club Manager
Foothills Swim & Racquet Club

Dear Mr. Cristy:

I have a complaint to make about Foothills Swim & Raquet Club.

I am not a member of the club, but I am a neighbor. I think I’m a
pretty good neighbor, actually. I don’t mind the bright lights
shining into my window or the loud voices of people yelling in victory
at the tennis courts or the loud music playing at the pool. My
bedroom is on the other side of the building, so none of those things
keep me up at night. I even don’t mind the snow that turns to ice on
the sidewalk along the club property, the only sidewalk in the
neighborhood that doesn’t get cleared. Sometimes I even shovel it,
which I don’t mind doing at all. I knew when I moved into my new home
three years ago that all of this would be “par for the course” living
next to a swim and tennis club, and I really don’t mind any of it. I
think it’s great that there’s a place nearby where people can come to
swim and play tennis.

What I do mind is the trash. Right now there are dozens of empty
paper cups and sports drink bottles lying outside my window on the
south end of the club property. This happens pretty much every
weekend, especially during the summer. Sometimes I get so fed up that
I go out and pick all the garbage up myself. Sometimes I don’t have
the time and the trash gets chewed up by the next lawn mowing; at
least then I can’t see the bits of paper amongst the grass. Even if
the trash gets cleaned up in the middle of the week, I still spend
half my life looking at garbage.

This is a nice neighborhood full of nice houses with beautiful front
lawns and landscaping. Take a drive up the road just half a block and
you’ll see what I mean. But right now, living here in the beautiful
state of Colorado, my beautiful scene of trees and mountains has a
foreground of garbage . . . garbage dumped next to my backyard. It’s
disgusting. I tried calling just now (during business hours) and let
the phone ring 15 times, but no one picked up the phone. Thus, you
(hopefully) get this e-mail. (If any of you Cced on this message do
happen to receive this and happen to see someone who can do something
about the trash outside my window, could you mention this e-mail?
Thanks!)

Obviously, I know the club isn’t dumping trash outside my window. I
know that it’s done by selfish patrons who can’t be bothered to drive
their trash to a proper receptacle. I don’t know what the answer to
this problem is. Put a regularly emptied trash can in the corner of
the gravel parking lot? Have the groundskeeper pick up the trash on
Sundays? Inform the club patrons that it is inappropriate to throw
their empty drink containers on the grass?

All I know is that it is the club’s responsibility. It’s disgusting.
And I really can’t take it anymore.

Please clean up the trash in a timely manner. Be a good neighbor.

Your neighbor

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It’s now 6:30, and there are two people in exercise-wear out there with garbage bags cleaning up the trash!