December 14, 2014

Chris Kelly puts the plight of our area, if the Keystone Sanitary Landfill expansion happens, to song–the last line says it all “the silent ones can never say it happened without warning”:

A controversial proposed expansion at Keystone Sanitary Landfill, owned by billionaire Louis DeNaples, would build a mountain of out-of-state trash in the heart of the valley over the next half-century. This monstrosity would do incalculable harm to the health, environment and economy of the region.

I SMELLED THE TRUCKS

(“I Saw Three Ships”)

I smelled the trucks come

rumbling in

Every day, yes, every day

I saw the trash come dumping in

Every day in the morning.

For 50 years it went this way

Every day, yes, everyday

And chased the jobs and kids away

Sent cancer rates a-soaring.

The mountain rose, the valley sank

Into decay, day by day.

The silent ones can never say

It happened without warning.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials-columns/christopher-j-kelly/chris-kelly-and-a-one-two-three-1.1802651