Regarding the article “An eco-friendly and safe way to recycle paint, electronics in Parker”:

It used to be easy to do. It’s a shame Douglas County communities have had to struggle to put together these types of events recently. Up through 2019, Tri-County Health Department, the county’s former shared health department, sponsored such annual events around the county in the fall, called the Household Chemical Roundup. I volunteered for the one in Castle Rock for many years, doing vehicle off-load. It was a lot of fun and a great way to give back to the community. But the pandemic changed all of that. Masking and other so-called encroachment on “freedom” was a bridge too far, and the BOCC at the time, of which two members remain, decided to part ways with TCHD and form a new county health dept. As such, those events no longer happen, and here we are.

Chris Demarest

Castle Rock

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