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By DAVID E. BOOKER

Twelve trash bags and what do you get? Another day over and another First Creek Greenway cleanup. This one on Saturday, October 26, 2013. In addition to trash, as always there were interesting finds that included part of television (the type with a picture tube in it), two cooking grills (I guess summer was over and there was no place to store them except down at the creek.) part of a bicycle (Tires not included.), three shopping carts (Seems the creak can never get enough of these.), a Tennessee license plate from the 1980s (Car not attached.) and a sofa (The perfect thing to sit on and contemplate nature down at the greenway).

Thank you to Martin Vargas, Greg and Christopher Brown, Mark and Samuel Shoemaker, Elizabeth, J. Carmen, Jonathan, and Nathan Garcia all of Cub Scout pack 146. Thank you, also, to Brad, Joy, Charis, and Cai Guildford, Diana Ray, Ron, Jennifer, Henry, and Dovie Lubke, Lauren, Fin, and Hagen Rider, Hazel Tippo, Beth, Lauren, and David Booker.

A special thanks to the city of Knoxville and Keep Knoxville Beautiful for providing bags, gloves, water, and clean up equipment — including a dumpster to put all the trash in. Also, thank you to Magpies Bakery and Three Rivers Market. Magpies provided six dozen delicious mini-cupcakes and Three Rivers provided dozens of delicious Gala and Honeycrisp apples, perfect eating for a frosty fall morning.