I am not against the idea of clean sweeps. I can tell you in Whittier it didn't work too well.
My husband and I did clean sweep for nine years until we just decided to say "no". We had to beg people to ride the garbage trucks and the food and drinks usually ended up costing the same volunteers year after year. It was fun the year we had peacecorp volunteers helping. We had plenty of volunteers that year. People in my neighborhood would dump sky high loads on the boulevard and in the alley and then be no where in site when it was time to load it into the truck. There wasn't a great deal of participation by either residents in the neighborhood or from volunteers needed to do all the work. It seemed to be the same few people year after year. We coupled clean sweep with a grafitti clean-up. That was pretty successful and noticed by the Nicollet business owners which was nice. We did have a tense situation where a volunteer that was removing grafitti got surrounded by the gang that put the grafitti there in the first place. Thank God for cell phones. We have another volunteer that nearly got arrested for removing grafitti. There is my take on it. My husband and I have done our duty to the clean sweep initiative. If it is carried on, someone else will have to pick up the broom. Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
