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Scouts attack illegal dumps.
Byline: D. S. Tyson
Feb. 25--DAMASCUS -- Tires, beer bottles, soda cans, sofas and even a toilets or two littered a twisty, muddy road in eastern Washington County. It's a blight on some of Virginia's most scenic views. But on Saturday, more than two dozen people donned gloves and protective wear to rid this and other back roads around the Damascus area of illegal dump sites, helping to return the mountains to their beauty. A convoy of four-wheel-drive pickups charged up the mountains' sides, hauling members of Boy Scout Troop 117 and Cub Scout Troop 76. They came. They saw. They conquered the piles of trash. The young men and adults heaved, hauled, pushed, shoved and …
