What garbage
BOLIVAR - During two decades of grass-roots environmentalism, Club 3000 has closely monitored the garbage dumped at the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township. Now, just as the Bolivar-based group's persistence has begun to pay off with a massive cleanup plan in the works, Stark County's health commissioner, William Franks, appears as interested in digging into the club's finances as he is the underground fires and foul odors coming from the 258-acre landfill.
Franks is in the process of formulating a recommendation to the county health board on a 2007 operating permit for Countywide, not a renewal of Club 3000's status as a private, nonprofit organization. He has offered no public explanation for his outrageous demand for financial records, which, so far, the club has denied. Incredibly, the health department's legal counsel, Deborah Dawson, thinks Franks is not abusing his authority....Read more.
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