40-ounce beer sales vex East End: City, convenience store in battle over sale of oversized bottles, a major source of litter From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: July 28, 2005| Author: JAKE STUMP | Copyright 2005 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

DAILY MAIL STAFF

The solution to cleaning up the East End is not in a bottle, some city leaders say.

Especially if it's a 40-ounce bottle.

Forty-ounce bottles of beer are being blamed for litter and vagrancy in places such as the Living AIDS Memorial Garden, for people loitering along East End streets and businesses, and for contributing to a negative stereotype of low-income urbanites.

But one convenience store owner on Washington Street East, Joe Shawkey, says th...

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