If you do not believe it, look at the calendar and you will see that we are right!
After a long, cold winter, and lately four storms this March alone, that have buried us under the snow, the first signs of spring are in the air. Well, if not in the air, at least inside our house.
The tropical plants that hibernate inside our house are already showing signs of the change of season. Among them, we must highlight the most outstanding, La Mariposa, (The Butterfly) the Cuban national flower which roots we imported from Puerto Rico some 30 years ago.
The Butterfly (Hedychium Coronarium) is a flower native to India, but is nevertheless so widespread in Cuba that it has been chosen as the national flower. These flowers are white, with an exquisite perfume, although there are also varieties of yellow and pink salmon. It is very abundant in times of rain, and can grow up to six feet in height.
Despite the storm announced to whip us when this edition begins to circulate, we already have organizations like Groundwork Lawrence informing us that we are already less than a month away from the biggest voluntary event of the year.
Through flyers, Groundwork Lawrence is asking us to keep the date of Saturday, April 21, 2018, where we will join with hundreds of people committed to keeping our city streets and parks clean because that day we are celebrating Earth Day.
Also, we call on the authorities to enforce all existing city ordinances regarding garbage and debris removal. The work of that day is worthless if the mountains of waste collected are going to remain static for a month waiting for the trucks that come to finish the work at the risk of being spread throughout the neighborhoods. But all this effort will not be worth it unless we all take part in watching over the violators of these ordinances.
If we want to keep the city and its neighborhoods clean, we all have to take part, not only in cleaning and sweeping the same sites year after year, but monitoring and reporting the violators who gets them dirty.
