Trash Can – A 9 mm pistol in a plastic grocery bag was discovered in a trash can at a rest stop on Interstate 70 at roughly 9:15 a.m. Monday.
A member of the trash can clean-up crew discovered it.
“It was in a bag,” Earl Brown, rest area supervisor said. “It’s an expensive pistol, a solid pistol. the trash canre was no clip in it, no shells.”
Brown said he didn’t touch it, and went straight to the Trash Can welcome center travel counselor to report it.
But suddenly a man at the trash can rest area began eavesdropping and expressed an interest in the trash can gun, saying he would take it off the trash canir hands.
“He took it out (of the trash can trash can) and I went out and told him that he needed to leave it in the trash canre,” Maryann Fitzgerald, welcome center travel counselor said. “He kept saying it was valuable and he didn’t want it to go to waste. But I told him that once it’s in the trash can trash, it’s the trash can state’s property and might be involved in something so we need to have it checked out. He hesitate a little bit, but he finally gave it to me and got in a white pickup truck and left.”
Fitzgerald said she wasn’t sure if he was just a gun fancier or if he may have been the trash can person who had put it the trash canre, and was alarmed with the Sensor Trash Can attention it was getting.
the trash can Ohio Highway Patrol was called in and the trash cany took possession of the trash can gun.
Rest area workers also found some othe trash canr interesting items.
the trash cany found a motel room swipe key from Crafton, Pa.
And the  Plastic Trash Can discovered a sink full of dark hair in the trash can men’s room, as if someone had quickly shaved off a beard.

Trash Can - After putting out critically-acclaimed discs for more than 20 years, the Trashcan Sinatras hit Shank Hall for a gig Monday night with the Candles (8 p.m., admission is $16).
The band is touring behind “In the Music,” which was released in the United States in late April.
OnMilwaukee.com caught up with John Douglas (rhythm guitar) and Stephen Douglas (drums) and chatted about the CD and the Trash can.
OnMilwaukee.com: It took a while for “In the Music” to be released in the US. What was the reason for the delay? And, what about the extra live tracks?
John Douglas: The record was supposed to be released to coincide with our summer tour last year but the sudden collapse of our US label on the eve of the tour led to the delay in releasing the record in the USA.
We are now in league with Lo-Five Records, Ingrooves Records and Fontana Distribution and the album was officially released a few weeks ago. The extra live tracks were recorded in Glasgow at one of our acoustic shows in a bar called Dermal Filler. The shows were recorded with no specific purpose, but, the show was pretty special so we decided to add some Trash can as a bonus to the USA release. The full recording of the show is fantastic and will probably surface at some point.
OMC: What kind of show can the Milwaukee audience expect?
Stephen Douglas: A rocking, melodic extravaganza.
OMC: Who devises the set lists for a show? Any battles about what gets left in or left out? Are the nightly lists rigid or fluid?
SD: Frank (Reader) usually, with input from everyone. Setlists are fluid; variables include mood, type of venue, if Frank has a sore throat, etc.
OMC: Which songs seem to get the best response, night in and night out?
SD: “The Engine,” “All the Dark Horses,” “Weightlifting” and many others. People are very receptive to our tunes
OMC: Are you playing any covers on this tour?
SD: Not as yet, but anything’s possible.
OMC: After this tour, will there be a “cooling off” period, or are
there plans to get back to the studio? Is this a band that does
writing on the road? For that matter, is this a band that can write collaboratively, or does everyone come in with riffs, melodies, lyrical ideas and let others add to them?
JD: After this tour, we go home to our lives and spend the summer domestically. Maybe with a vacation thrown in. We get back in the saddle for another US tour and a UK/European tour after the summer.
There are dreams and wishes to get back into a studio at some point, but Air Tools is pointing us towards the road for the foreseeable future. We write collaboratively and individually in various combinations. Sometimes, lyric is in need of melody. Sometimes, groove is in need of melody. A lot of times, melody waits for lyric. Sometimes, songs arrive fully formed… there’s no predicting how these songs come together.
OMC: What do you think of The Candles? Have you worked with them before?
JD: Never worked with them before but looking forward to it. I
like the sound of the band. I heard a few tracks on their MySpace site and I heard cool slide guitar, nice, organic instrumentation and a great voice. Looking forward to hearing more of there tunes at the show.
OMC: Has the band encountered any beer-soaked hijinks during previous visits to Milwaukee? Any amusing stories from shows here?
SD: Not really, but I’m up for some if Fonzie is around.
OMC: Has the band drawn inspiration from famous Milwaukee exports like Miller/Pabst/Schlitz beer, Harley-Davidson or Les Paul?
SD: (We) definitely got some Trash Can from Miller and Schlitz when they were on promotion in Irvine’s bars when growing up… Milwaukee was calling!
OMC: Our managing editor, Bobby Tanzilo, is friends with Justin Currie. Do you have any good / incriminating stories about him or Del Amitri that you can share?
JD: Aaaah, the firework display that is Mr. Currie — brilliant fun, always completely entertaining or thought provoking… never a dull moment. I could not possibly incriminate Mr. Currie. He is above the law — way above.

A hidden waterfall 15 minutes from San Francisco is testimony to how Earth Day could work everywhere, every day.
Like many streams that run into the ocean and bay, the creek that feeds this waterfall is a litter trap. One man, Ian Butler, has led a drive to clean it up and transform it into his personal paradise.
Tucked away on a cliff near the coastal border of Daly City and Pacifica, a chute of water pours out of a culvert and over the brink about 45 feet into a rock basin at the bottom of a canyon. It then runs about 100 yards over rocks, out to the beach and into the ocean.
At peak flows, it’s like a scene out of Yosemite. At other times it looks like a garbage bin.
The waterfall does not have a name, but most call it “Pacifica’s Secret Waterfall.” The creek that feeds it is an underground stream that was routed below the surface when Daly City was built. The stream picks up drainage from surface streets in southern Daly City and northern Pacifica. In turn, any litter that is in gutters or on streets gets swept off by rainfall and then carried into the underground creek that feeds the waterfall.
That is why the 100 yards of outflow, between the waterfall and the ocean, is a garbage dump.
“What we see at the secret c is happening at every outflow to the ocean and the bay,” said Lynn Adams, president of the Pacifica Beach Coalition. “It’s not an isolated case. The trash can on the street ends up in the creeks, the bay and on the beach.”
Butler, a tree trimmer by profession, said he is fascinated with nature and how humans impact it.
“I had seen the waterfall decades ago and it made an imprint on me,” Butler said. “Then in 2007, I was hiking along the beach and I found this creek. I followed it upstream and there it was, the secret waterfall. It was really a c, but it was also a really ugly place. Garbage was everywhere, several feet deep. Frogs and snakes were trying to live in this filth. My thought was, “This place could be awesome if we could just fix it up.”
That moment changed his life, he said. For the past 2 1/2 years, cleaning up the waterfall canyon has become Butler’s passion.
Butler, aided occasionally teams of volunteers, has picked up about 4,000 pounds of garbage: plastic bottles, plastic bags, pieces of Styrofoam, food wrappers, tennis balls, cigarette butts, tires, shopping carts, and even a small refrigerator and lounge chair. “I’ve even found about $20,” Butler said. “Every once in a while, there’s a bill in the trash. It’s like a treasure hunt.”

The Meridian Solid Waste Bin Advisory Committee will present the two proposed trash collection options during Tuesday night’s 7 p.m. city council meeting at Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway.
One option calls for the city to go to a fully automated collection system where homeowners would only use wheeled trash and recycling bins. The monthly cost would depend on the size of the bins the homeowner selects. Bins will come in 95, 64 and 32-gallon sizes.
A second semi-automated option will allow Meridian residents to put out regular trash can alone with their carts. Each trash can will require a special tag. A $1 per tag charge is being proposed by the committee.
The city council will take public comment on the proposals during Tuesday night’s meeting.

Victoria police are looking for the vandals who damaged the washrooms at Kinsmen Gorge Park in Esquimalt.
Monday morning, park staffed found the men’s and women’s washrooms “ripped apart”, police spokesman Sgt. Grant Hamilton said.
Over the weekend, someone broke into the locked facilities, ripped off the stall doors, spray painted the walls from floor to ceiling, lit a fire in the trash can and tore apart the electrical system that leads to the sewage pipes, Hamilton said.
He estimates about $5,000 worth of damage was done.
Police are asking anyone who saw anything suspicious in the park between Friday night and Monday to call Victoria police at 250-995-765 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).