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Trash talk: Dot shines, South End stinks

By adamg on Sat, 04/29/2006 - 6:04pm

Lawrence spent four hours helping clean up the Ronan Park neighborhood in Dorchester today as part of the annual Boston Shines spring cleanup:

... I've lived here for two years and this place has always been a dump. Today I feel like I live in the suburbs. It's actually a really good feeling. Hats of to the Mayor for keeping the city clean. ...

Meanwhile, in the allegedly tonier South End, Mike Mennonno takes more photos of chi-chi trash bags on local sidewalks.

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Comments

By Mister Goat on Sun, 04/30/2006 - 11:46am.

Hats off to the mayor? I'd say hats off to the locals who do the clean-up, both on days like this and on less-heralded occasions. In the Five-Streets area where I live, not far from Ronan Park, there's a monthly neighborhood clean-up on Saturday mornings. The folks who get out and do that (and I must admit that I'm not one of them) are the heroes here. If the mayor and council wanted to help more than symoblically, they'd get more public trash cans on the street, so less trash would build up.

Don't mean to be a downer--I sincerely thank you for taking all this time. I just think that it's YOU and others in the neighborhood who deserve the praise.

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By Lawrence on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 6:58pm.

I think the Mayor would probably be the first to agree with you. But it's a well coordinated effort and the city provides all the tools and trashbags. But at the same time it shouldn't take the Mayor to get people motivated to clean up the city. If you live in Dorchester I'm sure you have seen people throw trash out the window of their cars and on the street. There are a lot of people that make the extra effort to keep their neighborhoods clean but it's they also have to keep up with all the people who don't have the sense to put trash where trash goes.

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