Now this brings me to one of two points of my post. The ball is moving on these areas but when these improved areas are littered with trash and clothing by ignorant lazy people then it gets me into a boil. I walked the park and saw trash, no fault of anyone but those who littered, literally within feet of trashcans or a very short walk. Though more trashcans are needed, people can hold on to their trash for a little bit or not forget about it. I even heard of a report that by one of the park benches, yes there are benches, that someone dumped a bag of trash everywhere. Few days later it still looked like someone dumped trash. Get real people, don't ruin a public park. I'm tired of going fishing and running over and around trash.
The second point is if you feel something needs to be done or have a concern the only way you can get results and answers to your inquiries is to become engaged within the community. That means that you have to pose the questions, attend the meetings, start dialogues with those who are in a specific position, and do your homework. Just a little post and concern got some areas attended to which needed it and had not been dealt with for a while. Think what a whole group of citizenry could do if they did the same thing or more on our problems. Granted you might have to yell a little louder than I did on some issues with some people, but still it is each citizens responsibility to at least be informed and give your opinion in whatever way you can.
Get vocal and active Salisbury
Nick You think with the trash that sits in the admin. offices of Salis really give a shit about what u think?
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ReplyDeleteWhy are they letting the zoo fall apart?
Good point Nick. All it takes is steady and polite citizen concerns, voiced in the right way, and Salisbury could be the next Takoma Park - which is not a bad thing. And, imagine how much better it could get with a newly elected and proactive city leaders! Grassroots efforts will lead the way from Salisbury being the butt of jokes to someplace folks WANT to live.
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ReplyDeleteThere is an old tradition which I believe in, it's called if your elected officials do not do a good job or what as a voter you felt that needed to be done you vote them out. Again in order to participate in that tradition you have to go out and vote and get active, especially in our area. And yes there are those, both elected and un-elected who do care. Eventually you will strike a chord with them. But it takes more than a handful of people.
Anon: 3:07
Thank You.
Anon: 4:11
That's Joes Dept. there. He has more information and knows the history a lot better than I do. I did see on my city park walk the other day the red wolves' cubs were out walking around the den.
Anon 4:34,
Your on the point. Grassroot efforts are key!
I also forgot to post that the City Park Council monthly meeting is today, got busy cleaning house and yard work. I'll be there.
6:30 PM at the Zoo's ESBA education building
I know it's easier to just sit back at our keyboards and complain, but...
ReplyDeleteSalisbury News could organize a small party, to go and just clean the place up.
Instead of just waiting around for the politicians to act, the News could become the news. It would be a good way to use the blog.
anon 2:01
ReplyDeleteThey do have park clean ups and everytime when im fishing i pick trash up and throw it away. If every one did that there would not be as big of a problem. Let alone if no littered there would be no problem.
I'm also going to try to get my Fraternity to do a clean up; our Chapter President loves the idea.
And with SBYnews.com you never know...
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