Saturday, March 30, 2013

Let's Raise the "Give a Darn" Factor in District 2

A couple of blogs back I wrote that, "we need to expect more… from ourselves and from everyone around us. It's time to stop selling ourselves short and settling for second best. It's time to roll up our sleeves and work hard and become the city that everyone else wants to live in and everyone else wants to copy".

The Neighborhood Housing Task Force will help us reach that goal, but here's how we're going to start the process...we're going to make District 2 the cleanest and best kept district in all of Wyandotte County.

We're going to raise the level of "give a darn" in our little corner of the city!

Are you kidding me??

We CAN NOT tolerate scenes like these
in our neighborhoods any longer!!

Unfortunately, now that the snow has melted, we can clearly see the trash and debris that are scattered around and stacked up in our neighborhoods.

Enough!!

We all know how much better we feel when things are neat and clean, so let's make it happen. We're going to put our collective feet down and take a stand against a low level of "give a darn".

It all kicks off on Saturday, May 11
with "District 2 Spring Cleaning Day"
(9:00 a.m. start)

I'm going to distribute much more detailed information shortly, but I want everyone to mark May 11 on your calendar. That's the day we start to make our stand.

Many, many thanks to
Community Policing officer Ryan Parker
for leading the effort to collect all this trash on Saturday, March 23!
One little patch of District 2 looks better now!!

We want this effort to include every home and every business in District 2 (oh, what the heck...you can participate even if you don't live in District 2).

A map showing District 2 (click to enlarge)
This is where we're going to make a difference!!!

Here are three simple ways that you can get involved on May 11...
  • At the very least, pick up any trash that's in your yard and encourage your neighbors to do the same.
  • At the next level, you can pick up the trash that is in the "public right-of-way" around your house. Get a couple of friends and a trash bag and pick up any trash you find from the sidewalk to the curb and out to the street.
  • If you really want to get ambitious, get a few friends together and tackle and alley behind your house.
Don't pick up anything that is dangerous or harmful, and be very careful that you don't trespass on anyone's private property while you are picking up trash. We want to respect folks' privacy even while we are encouraging them to join our cleanup effort.




Besides just picking up trash, another thing that we'll do on May 11 is start a list of places where we need a more concentrated cleanup effort.

If you notice any places that have a lot of trash or have large and heavy items or have trash on private property that can't be cleaned up, I want you to drop a note in my Suggestion Box and give me details. We'll assemble all of the locations into a master list and start organizing volunteer groups to tackle the problem spots one by one.

I'll post more information in a week or so telling you where you can pick up some trash bags and where we will establish our various "headquarters" locations for the cleanup day.

Stay tuned for that, but, in the meantime, get ready to make a difference on May 11.

Oh, yeah, baby...we're going to be all clean and beautiful.  :-)

~ Brian

bmckiernan@wycokck.org
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