Byline: RHEA DAVIS Staff writer
The season of giving usually prompts acts of charity, but area thrift stores say too many people fill donation boxes with garbage during this time of year.
Although illegal dumping is a yearlong problem, it gets especially bad around the holidays, when many thrift stores receive their highest volume of donations.
``People leave old washers and dryers, broken refrigerators; when the holidays come around, people dump their garbage on us,'' said John Knees, a Salvation Army donation truck dispatcher. ``It's just pitiful.''
A few months ago, the City Mission of Schenectady thrift store on Hamburg Street was forced to close, in part because managers couldn't keep up with the broken furniture and other trash left outside the charity's doors, …
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