While driving to school or work today did you notice a number of students walking along Louis St Laurent and 4th Line as well as other areas in town? Those were CKSS students participating (in what I believe is the first annual) Community Clean Up.
Many students at CKSS took time from their schedule today to tackle the garbage problem that we face in this area. Even before 930 this morning I had received a couple of calls and tweets about how impressed they were with their initiative in cleaning up our neighbourhoods.
I have outlined through my Twitter many times this past year there is a growing problem with garbage and the roadside dumpings that have happened. Many residents have taken it upon themselves to dump household waste in the green containers along Louis St Laurent and a number of our local parks instead of paying for extra garbage tags.
Town and Regional staff are continuously looking at this problem to see what solution we can come up with. Seeing garbage bags ripped open by racoons or other animals with waste flying all around isn’t attractive whatsoever and I get a lot of comments from local residents and students about this.
So once again….thank you to the students of Craig Kielburger Secondary School for taking this task on and giving back to the community. Your hard work has not gone unnoticed. Great job!