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Ten Years Ago

January 17, 2008

Jack Cyr, Mr. Recycling around Waitsburg, will cease recycling newspaper and cardboard as of April 1, 2008, blaming high gas prices. Cyr informed The Times through a Letter to the Editor. “They say we’re going to have $4 gas by summertime,” Cyr said this week. The 82-year-old’s route is usually from Waitsburg, where he picks up cardboard at the blue box near the Waitsburg City Shop and other locations, through Dixie and to various stops along the way into Walla Walla.

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