After a long and cold winter, the first signs of spring are in the air with chilly mornings and evenings and rising temperatures at mid-day. Those signs are the motivators for most people to get out and start picking up what was hidden under the snow. It’s contagious!
In this edition, we are promoting the great cleanup campaign scheduled for Saturday, April 25 in celebration of Earth Day, by different Lawrence neighborhoods under the direction of Grounwork Lawrence in coordination with Comcast encouraging residents to come forward and join the group of volunteers in the biggest community event of all year.
Also, we call on the authorities to enforce all existing city ordinances regarding trash, debris removal and garbage. It is not worth the work of that day if the mountains of collected waste will remain static for a month waiting for the trucks to come to complete the work at the risk of being irrigated again through the neighborhoods.
But all this effort will be useless unless we all take part in keeping a watchful eye on violators of these ordinances.
If we want to keep the city and the neighborhoods clean, we all must get Involve not only in sweeping and cleaning the same spots year after year, but to watch and report the violators.
