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.
Tag: Environment
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.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1973.
Three separate summer programs operated in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area with varying degrees of success.
The Loop-West End People's Clinic plans to discontinue its recycling program effective January 1, 1974.
