Student trash pickup certainly IS public service

Re letter to the editor from Dave Rudnicki Wednesday about the students picking up trash as not a community service:

I disagree. As an officer of Beautify Carolina Forest, a nonprofit corporation, we have been picking up trash along Carolina Forest roads for the last two years that is dumped by others and cleaned up by our volunteers and it is community service. You are doing something to benefit your community and make it a better place and that is what those CCU students are doing on their campus.

We would welcome any students from CCU to any of our monthly trash pickups and would gladly give them credit for community service. I welcome Dave to join us as a volunteer anytime. It is too bad that people feel that they can throw trash out of their cars and that other people end up picking it up but that is the way of the world right now.

There is a committee called Keep Horry County Beautiful whose goal is to do projects to benefit the county and most of that is litter pickup and education. They too are looking for people to volunteer to work on their projects. I'd like to thank the students at CCU for picking up litter around their campus and learning about community service.

This story was originally published February 3, 2016 at 9:15 PM with the headline "Student trash pickup certainly IS public service."