Thanks to Leo Cheek
Posted by ryan on January 30, 2008
Note: This post is to show personal thanks to a city employee.
In an effort to help clean up the area near where I live I recently adopted a small section of Lee St that extends from Bennett to Eugene St. Over the last two days I spent 5.5 hours picking up trash and filled up more than 20 trash bags. The experience was very eye opening and something I plan to do on a monthly basis.
As I was picking up the trash around Lees Curb Market I asked myself “Why in the world do people not put this stuff in a trash can?” Then I looked around and realized there was not a single trash can in site and as a matter of fact there are hardly any on the entire stretch of road that I adopted.
Now for the point of the post. Yesterday I contacted Leo Cheek who runs Greensboro’s Field Operations Department and discussed the trash can issue with him. He agreed to meet me at Lees Curb Market this morning at 9 am to discuss the possibility of getting some cans put out. After a short meeting we agreed to put three cans in the near vicinity of the store to see if people actually use them. I simply want to publicly say thanks to Leo for taking prompt action to help fix this issue that could be one small step towards cleaning up the area.
Billy The Blogging Poet said
In some southern California cities and a few other areas trash cans are located at traffic lights (In medians and on the shoulder) where they can be easily reached from the seat of a car.