Trashed out
Neighbor: Don’t throw your garbage on me

A controlled permitted fire burns wood waste as clean up on an illegal landfill in Grants nears cleanup on Tuesday. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Adron Gardner

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Helen Davis
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — It’s not easy being clean. Just ask Donna Chavez, Code Enforcer Marty McBride and Carlos Lopez and his family.

Acting on a tip from Grants City Councilor T. Walter Jaramillo, McBride went out to check on a residential debris complaint from one of Jaramillo’s constituents and discovered additional trash accumulating in the west hills area of Grants, nicknamed “the Loma,” Jaramillo said.

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