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John McGary

Volunteers ‘sweep’ up in Woodford County

Big Spring Park is named for the spring beneath the Woodford County Courthouse. It feeds a creek that winds through the park behind the courthouse and leads to Glenns Creek, which passes two distilleries on its way to the Kentucky River. Travis Yearsley and his 5th-grade daughter Jillian wear chest-waders as they walk through the shallow creek. A few minutes later, Jillian shares some of their finds – cans, plastic bottles, the frighteningly realistic right leg of a baby doll – and something even yuckier:

“We found like, this whole pack of meat. It was like, it was like so bad, stinked like raw meat. Yeah, like cow meat.”

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