Leaven No Trace, Feb. 27

The founder and organizer of a volunteer cleanup effort in Coos County has been sentenced to 12-months Court Probation and fined $500 by a Coos County Circuit Court Judge Thursday, Feb. 23, in Coquille.  Raymond Furr, who identified his cleanup effort as Leaven No Trace, allegedly “unlawfully and recklessly created a risk of public inconvenience, annoyance and alarm by creating hazardous or physically offensive condition by an act that Mr. Furr was not licensed to privileged to do.”  According to a news release from Deputy District Attorney Jenna Royce.  Furr had stacked illegally disposed of tires from woods and side of the roads for disposal later, but he ran out of the ability to properly disposed of the collected trash he accumulated with the help of volunteers.  As part of his sentence, Furr is prohibited from collecting any garbage on public land, and must have written permission to enter private land.