Friday 1 April 2016

Spring Cleaning: Howwood villagers are organising their annual Spring Clean on 16/17 April - details on p43. And Brighter Bridge of Weir will be doing the same on 14/15 May - details on p51. Houston Community Council plan to hold regular clear-ups around the village and details are available on their Facebook page. Or, if you haven’t time to help out in a group, why not just keep around your own home clear, imagine if everybody did that! And to save your hands getting too dirty, Gibb Stuart’s sell litter-pickers, gloves and bin bags.
These litter picks are hugely successful, with Brighter Bridge of Weir volunteers telling me they collected 16 large bags of litter in one afternoon, and that’s just along one stretch of road in Bridge of Weir. Similarly, Houston CC organised a general litter-pick day recently and picked up a similar quantity from a relatively small area. A great achievement, but it’s sad that it has to be done at all; there seems to be an attitude prevailing nowadays that someone else will attend to it. And to continue the rant, it’s great to see dog owners now bagging it, but if that bag doesn’t make it to a bin, there seems little point in the exercise (excuse the pun!).

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