I go to Ed Austin Regional Park every day. It is a beautiful park in Arlington that gets many visitors.

It has a walking track around the entire park, a dog park for the four-legged members of the community and a skateboard park. But I am writing out of concern for that particular area.

On Monday mornings, the parking lot is full of discarded, broken soda and beer bottles, empty food containers and 64-ounce soda fountain cups.

If you follow the trail of empty pizza boxes, potato chip bags and other trash from the parking lot, you find the skateboard park in the center of what resembles a landfill.

I have seen kids at the park empty the trash can onto the ground because they want to jump over the can with their skateboards. They don’t put the trash back into the can. They just leave it on the ground.

There is a sign on the walking track nearby indicating that pet owners must clean up after their dogs. But it is hard to take the sign seriously when it is surrounded by trash.

Also on Mondays, we invariably find the portable toilet turned on its side. We have the portable toilet because the ones in the baseball park were previously destroyed on occasion; therefore, they are locked.

The people who work in the park cleanup the mess each day.

But the next day it’s back.

I’m sure it disheartens them to see that mess every morning.

I know that I find it disheartening.

Since Ed Austin Regional Park is a Police Athletic League park, it would be nice if those police officers were able to enforce the zero tolerance on litter law.

It imposes a $100 fine — and Jacksonville could sure use the money.

Lori Beatty, Jacksonville