Community Waste Solutions manager Craig Franke lifted the water-logged rug with a mini digger.
Andrew Letchworth salvaged a pet-stained Persian rug likely worth thousands of dollars from the landfill last month.
Letchworth’s family has a passion for the rugs after his grandparents, who were missionaries in Pakistan for 20 years, routinely brought them home. When visiting a friend’s home in Haines, Letchworth noticed what looked like an authentic Persian rug in…