Do you remember when…….
………we all used to be responsible for cleaning the pavement in front of our properties? We all were proud to keep our frontages clean and I remember as a child, augmenting my pocket money by sweeping the pavement. Now though, we have to make our way through litter and dogs’ mess.
Would you believe that this morning I came across a whole boxful of latex ‘examination gloves’ strewn over a 10 sq. mt pleasant, green area of Leeming Ward. My immediate thought was: I’ll go home and call MDC Grimebusters to clear it up…..my next thought was: It’s ‘clean muck’- I’ll pick it up myself. So I went home, collected my litter-picker and picked them up, all bar 2 that had blown into a garden. It gave me a warm glow, clearing that mess. If you want to enjoy that ‘warm glow’ please take care of your little patch of Leeming Ward.
April 3rd. I have been out and about in the ward and the amount of dog mess is appalling. I saw a gentleman on Litton Road who struggles to walk using two crutches and he picked up after his dog. He puts to shame those dog owners who ‘watch and walk’ as their dog fouls the pavement or grass verge.
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You may wish to make is a joint effort with Councillor Brown as he published the following on his ‘blogsite’ as part of a letter to the Mansfield Chad on 3 March 2008, which has yet to be published, if the Editor so wishes
‘In July of 1896 a Byelaw was passed in the Borough of Mansfield, not yet revoked, stating that ‘the occupier of any premises fronting, adjoining or abutting on any street shall, once at least in every day, Sundays excepted, cleanse the footways and pavements adjoining such premises.’
I appears that he too wishes to see a clean and pleasant Mansfield.