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Life With Ferris: The Importance Of Being A Good Steward Of Our Planet Monday, April 19, 2021 - by Ferris Robinson
Before there was an official worldwide Earth Day, my little hometown of Jasper, Tn. held its own version of this important day: Sparkle Day. Already surly and disagreeable as a pre-preteen, I did not willingly don plastic gloves and troll the neighborhood picking up tin cans and plastic wrappers and soggy unidentifiable things that were possibly dirty diapers: My mother made me. She also made my brother and sister do the same, arming us with big plastic bags for gathering refuse. Akin to an Easter egg hunt (her inaccurate description), Sparkle Day offered a few instructions, but the only one I remember with a perverse fascination was not to pickup Kleenex. I wanted to know why, and my mother’s explanation that they were full of revolting, vile germs made them extremely appealing.