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OURTH Workers spend day cleaning up after the fun, food and festivities
WILKES-BARRE — It was the morning after in Kirby Park.
About a dozen city street department employees arrived at the park at 7
a.m. on Monday to pick up after the thousands of visitors who attended
Sunday’s Fourth of July concert and fireworks show.
“It looked like a plane crashed when we got here this morning,” said a city
parks department employee.
The workers scooped up the trash and hauled away about 85 truckloads of it
— empty cups, plastic bags, food wrappers, empty sparkler boxes, cigarette
butts, spent fireworks and a seemingly endless supply of lemon rinds, which
left many yellow dots strewn about the park’s green grass.
“The lemonade stand made lots of money,” joked Mike Nixon of the city parks
department.
Most aluminum cans were already gone before the cleanup began.
Workers guessed the cans were probably snapped up by scavengers who sold
them for recycling.
Despite the sweltering 90-degree temperatures, one city employee didn’t
seem to mind the job.
“It was a nice party they had here last night,” he said.