Theft

Some people want to get involved. They want to live in a better community and they go about doing something about it. Some work with children, some help social services like the food bank, and some plant trees.

Rene Drain is one such person and through the town's Beautification Committee she has worked on several projects. One is the building of trail head projects. One was in the Sharp Springs Natural Area and in November she plants, dug, and made a nice area for people to visit.

Sadly some total lowlife's went and messed with it.

Five trees were recently stolen from a trailhead at Sharp Springs Natural Area on Espey Drive.

It's not a new problem, but disappoints those involved with the upkeep and maintenance of the parks system.
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Rene Drain serves on the town's Beautification Committee and has worked to get companies to sponsor the Smyrna Greenway's seven trailheads by donating plants and supplies. She noticed the damage when she drove out to check on the sites a couple of weeks ago.

"I discovered that someone has stolen five very nice trees right up out of the ground. Three of them were nice blue spruce trees. It makes me very mad," she said, adding that the trailhead was planted in November.

I saw her one day digging the holes and planting plants there, and her efforts to make a better community were obvious.

For every person working to make a community better, there seems to be two working against them.