this town IS doing good things!
August 17, 2007 at 10:19 pm | Posted in All America City, Barnstable Conservation, Barnstable DPW, Barnstable Natural Resources, Barnstable Police, C.A.R.T., C.O.M.M., CART team, COMM FIRE, COMM WATER, Mark Delaney, McBarron field, barnstable town council, cape cod, centerville, council president janet joakim, ecology, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, john klimm, lumberts mill, marstons mills, town councillor, town councilor janet joakim | 2 Comments
I ventured out into the neighborhood today, (despite a painful bout with a congenital hip problem), to take part in an effort that joined the Barnstable Police Departments CART team, COMM water department, and neighbors, to clean up the wooded areas that surround our neighborhoods here in precinct 6. The CART team included the Barnstable Police Department – with Officer Mark Delaney coordinating today’s effort and the departments of resources, conservation, recreation, solid waste division, and natural resources.
The group gathered at 9 am, and officer Delaney handed out long handled trash clips, plastic gloves and trash bags, and sent the groups out into the woods with the town staff and their various pickup trucks, ATV’s with trailers, and lots of bottles of water.
What awaited those who were working on this project was everything from old rusted metal gates, large industrial wooden spools, old broken and rusted bikes, discarded building materials, broken glass and pieces of TVs and monitors, lots of beer cans, dunkin donuts cups, empty water bottles – a few fashioned in to pipes – and even what was once a very nice Sealy Posturepedic sleeper sofa that was submerged into the mud and muck in Lumbert’s pond.
The group worked throughout the morning and past noon to clean up, filling plastic bags, ATV trailers, and dump trucks. The effort has left us with beautiful walking trails, and allowed us to take a close look at how these areas are being used.
Camp fires/bon fires are burned in the middle of the brush off the trails by those who are littering the areas with beer cans and certain types of trash that led to some awkward moments between adults and children…..we are lucky, very lucky, that there has only been one brush fire. There is evidence of people possibly spreading accelerant on trees, and lighting fires.
Our next step is to gather these groups, all of whom have an interest in these properties, to parcipate in a neighborhood watch-style meeting to decide how to prevent this type of abuse in the future.
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Where was Frank Paparro? Doesn’t he live in that neighborhood? Why does he have the time to take pictures of things like spraypainted hate symbols on our neighborhood’s streets, but not take pictures of people cleaning up the messes?
Good work to all of you who did this cleaning, it must have been nasty. Sorry I couldn’t make it. Please post the date of the meeting about neighborhood watch.
les
Comment by lesrmore — August 18, 2007 #
It is time people learned that you have to work together to solve problems! The town is working with the neighbors and the Centerville OSTerville water/fire department and look at how this turned out.
What will you do about the ATVs and dirtbikes?
Was Paparo the one with the camera at the last council meeting?
Comment by sandyneckcraigville — August 18, 2007 #