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Jonathon Naylor Editor The future of our planet is a top-of-mind concern these days. But with people like Kylee Fisher forming the next generation, Earth appears to be in good hands. This past Sunday, Earth Day, the eight-year-old Flin Flonner organized friends and relatives to gather and dispose of unsightly litter. 'The garbage is poisoning the earth and I have to be here for a long time because I'm only eight,' Kylee says in explaining her motivation. About 20 kids and parents met up early in the afternoon to clear rubbish from the Joe Brain Children's Petting Zoo, Ecole McIsaac School and Creekside Drive areas. Armed with work gloves and black garbage bags, they scooped up every pop bottle, chip bag and other throwaway item they could find. Kylee, a Grade 3 student at McIsaac, says the friends she asked to participate -- ranging from ages five to 11 -- were all eager. 'They were like, 'That sounds like fun so I better go help,'' she says. This was the second straight year Kylee has organized an Earth Day clean-up, a fact that impresses mom Carmen Fisher. 'At first she just told me she wanted to have a party, so I said no,' says Carmen. 'But when she told me why and the cause and everything, how can you say no?' Kylee plans to continue to make the clean-up an annual event. 'We'll do it every year,' says Carmen.
