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ee TN a ema a ee et re "mt re a a gg og? 50 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 6, 1989 Not easy work! Garbage weighs 'nearly as much as Barbara does maybe even more nobody to pick up the trash. A re Arte a Photos for the Star by Nancy Newton It might be 90 degrees in the shade or a bone numbing 30 below. Collecting garbage is a tough job, but Barbara Brown enjoys her work, even on the coldest of days. "After half an hour or so, yousoon warm up," she says. It's also heavy work. Barba- rais 4' 11" and tips the scales at about 90 pounds. Some of the trash contain- ers and boxes filled with gar- bage probably weigh nearly as much as she does. "It keeps you in good shape," she says of the constant day-long lifting as the truck makes its way through the . streets of Port Perry. Anybody who does this kind of work on a regular basis had better be strong and agile. "I like the work," she says, though she admits her friends like to remind her there prob- ably are not too many women with similar jobs. Barbara works with the family-owned company, Brown's Sanitation, a company that has been collecting the gar- bage in this community for nearly a decade. It's not easy work and it may not be too "glamorous," but where would we be if there was