The Clinic staff has been busy meeting with block and church groups for the past two months, informing members of our services, projects and needs.
Tag: Environment
On December 8th and January 19, six alleys between Des Peres and Skinker were swept and cleaned by neighborhood residents and area boy scouts.
Do you expose your plants to friends and neighbors?
Beset by continuing complaints about conditions in local alleys, the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council voted at its January meeting to request the City to send Operation Neat through the area by midMarch.
Rene' Dubos: The greatest crime committed in American cities may not be murder, rape or robbery, but rather the wholesale and constant exposure of children to noise, ugliness and garbage in the street, thereby conditioning them to accept public squalor as the normal state of affairs and diminishing their future enjoyment of life.
The City's yearly house, garage and alley clean-up program, known as Operation Big Sweep was terminated for lack of funds in October.
Three trees, two sweet gums and a pin oak, have been planted in the Rosedale Neighborhood Association with money raised by the September paper drive.
The Fox, champion of the environment and defender of clean alleys, has struck again.
A meeting of the Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Association was held November 20, 1973 at St. Roch's.
Overturned trash cans breed rats and create unhealthy conditions in our alleys.
The recycling station behind the People's Clinic and Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council offices has closed down as of Wednesday, October 17.
Send items for this column to Marjorie Weir, 6120 Westminster Pl., or call 863-7558.
