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Sedro-Woolley High School students are worried opposing schools will have more reason to talk trash if Deluxe Recycling & Disposal builds across the street from their athletic facilities.
Junior Richard Weyrich, recently elected 2008-2009 Associated Student Body president, said he can already imagine some of the clever chants opposing students could unveil.
All taunting aside though, Weyrich and current ASB President Kathryn McGoffin said every student they’ve talked with is opposed to the recycling and disposal center location.
“I feel that it’s kind of irresponsible of the community officials and Deluxe Recycling to place this next to a high school where people are outside playing sports and in classrooms (trying to learn),” Weyrich said.
Noise and carbon monoxide exhaust fumes are two of Weyrich’s concerns.
“That’s going to be educationally distracting to students and staff at Sedro-Woolley High School,” he said.
McGoffin said many students aren’t opposed to the idea of having a recycling center or the revenue it would bring to the city’s coffers.
“It’s the location,” she said. “Having that zoned as industrial is not the best thing to have right next to the school.
“There’s a way to have industry in town, but you can’t put it that close to downtown and schools,” she added.
Weyrich and McGoffin both use the athletic facilities adjacent to the proposed Deluxe Recycling facility and said having big garbage trucks and additional traffic on Jameson Street would be detrimental to school activities scheduled during the recycling center’s business hours.
“As a tennis player, that would be distracting,” McGoffin said.
The students also worry about the future of Sedro-Woolley.
“Looking at this long term, it’s creating problems that we’re going to have to deal with,” McGoffin said. “Why not prevent it now before it’s a serious problem in my community?”
Students in general are against the proposal, Weyrich said. Not every student is as informed as Weyrich and McGoffin, which adds even more anxiety.
“Whether they understand it or not, they’re against having it next to the school,” McGoffin said. “It makes the officials look really bad because (students) think city and county officials don’t care about us.”
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