A telephone conference between two of my grandchildren hass resolved the wall of words problem....I think.
I took Stephanie to collect her car . Drove my regular route to the town hall. Noted once again , litter in the gutters.. It has been there since the end of last summer. The light stuff blew into the shrubs and bushes in the fall and stayed there all winter.
The Mayor and school children will be out soon with gloves and garbage bags picking the stuff out of the shrubs and bushes and the gutters.
Its good to teach children not to litter. The poster competition is great fun.
But I gotta tell you . I never saw picking up garbage fom the street as an appropriate role for the Mayor or the school children.
Call it snobbery, reverse-snobbery, lack of involvement. lack of environmental awareness'; call it whatever you like. I have never had an inclination to go out with agarbage bag and pick up garbage. from the streets .
We pay a contractor to keep our streets clean. We have a piece of equipment that cost $180.000 to
augment the contract program. I have repeatedly drawn the mess on the roadside to attention at public meetings. . To no avail. It still doesn't get cleaned up.
it's still there for the Mayor and the school children to pick up in the spring.
A former deputy-Mayor told of her experience A discussion was about a veterinarian with an animal hosital . He had cut into a town fence and installed a gate into the grounds of the Cenotaph for an amenity for his paatents..
There was a Council debate about whether that was acceptable. The former Deputy Mayor said it would be nothing to what she and Councillor Gaertner had seen at the rear of the Cenotaph.
during litter pick-up day.
I reember thinking "How disgusting "
I fervently hoped they didnt have anybody's children with them. I also worried about virus-laden mosquitos and-what the Medical Officer of Heaalth might have to advise about that..
Anyway here we are. It's Spring again. The Mayor and school childre are going out to do what should have been done by the town's work force more than six months ago.
Maybe that was the plan.
Scott at the Auroran wrote about that in one of his great articles. He made fun of a Clean-up committee having to put waste out for the big clean-up because Aurorans were so naturally tidy that there was no mess.
ReplyDeleteThat is, of course, nonsense. As students earning their points cleaning up after events in town have learned to their horror. There seems to be an argument about which is worse. The mashed messes from smokers or the toxic stench from old alcohol ? Hoe-down is reputedly the one to avoid.
Yes Gone are the days when all a councilor had to do was put a bug in the ear of the works director or parks director and the problem was solved ,Heaven forbid you ever go that route any more
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ReplyDeleteIt can still work but at the lower levels without all the top management nonsense. We had a pot-hole getting bigger all the time. Our street is not due for help for several years. One phone call led to several & some stuff from the city was brought up & the job was done. Credit where it is due & we sure were not going to e-mail the Mayor!
Your post reads very well indeed.
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