[RP TownTalk] Street sweeping

Thu Sep 3 03:51:15 UTC 2009

Credit Lady Bird Johnson's campaign to "Keep America Beautiful" to reminding
the public not to trash their environment. The campaign worked With Lady
Bird getting out of the White House and planting flowers, picking up trash,
changing the scenery all over town and all over the country. Today the
flower-packed park on Columbia Island at the edge of the Pentagon's east
parking lot and along the banks of the Potomac on the George Washington
Memorial Parkway, is named after Mrs. Johnson to honor her campaign. She
picked the site because it was the point along the parkway where she and LBJ
often stopped to look back and admire the city of Washington.

Michelle Obama has taken a page out Lady Bird's playbook with her White
House garden, which, as of yesterday, produced some 225 pounds of organic
vegitables.

It's all about leading by example.

Perhaps there ought to be some simlar site and town celebrity-lead event to
introduce the green machine and encourage youngsters to protect and promote
their green environment. Perhaps there is a historical tie-in with George
Calvert, who inspired the founding and creation of the U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture in 1862 and the launch of the Maryland Aguricultire College?

This could be the seed of a home-grown history lesson and modern-day
cultural revolution  all at once?

Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Melissa Avery <m.avery at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey Bruce-
> I agree with you that littering is a MAJOR problem in this community. There
> are a few citizens like Del and Emily who clean up our streets ( Ravenswood
> Rd. and Layette) every day.  There is always regular supply of empty beer
> bottles, torn up lottery tickets, etc.. from the apartment residents
>  evening visits to Dumms.
> That's just our few little blocks...
> I know the homeless people who live in Riverdale Parks park land and wooded
> areas leave much nastier kinds of  "waste" beside beer bottles.
> Let's hope the "green machine" is a big help to us regarding that
> situation.
>
> But..
> If as a community, we honestly want to deal with the trash situation, it
> needs to be addressed in serious manor.
>
> I can understand you suggesting that people get tickets for littering. That
> may be a part of a solution.
>
> I think we should launch a full town effort to raise awareness about
> littering. There has to be federal, state and county programs that were
> successful in the past that we could implement or borrow from. What happened
> to the keep America Beautiful Campaign?
> Maybe some federal money is available for something like this ?
>
> We could use the new "Green Machine"  to rally interest in dealing with
> this problem.
> Children at Riverdale Elementary should have a lesson component of why you
> do not litter.
>
> there should be a standing article in the Town crier discussing the anti
> Litter campaign.
>
> We need signs that say "if caught Littering you will be fined...." all over
> the town.
>
> We could have the council people from each ward get on the Mic at the farm
> market and remind the citizens not to litter.
>
> we need to have a sign from the town of Riverdale Park that is posted in
> all stores that sell "to go" anything in the town limits that says if caught
> littering you will be fined.
> I fact, if trash from any particular store is consistently found as litter,
> the business owner should have to attend some kind of educational program to
> raise their responsibility level.....or perhaps fined as well.
>
> If we can stop people from smoking in businesses, we can stop them from
> littering.
>
> Littering is ignorance.
>
> Littering was stopped in the 60's, and it surly can be stopped today.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* "bruce.wernek at mindspring.com" <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com>
> *To:* Alice Ewen Walker <alice.ewen.walker at gmail.com>; ABragg7393 at aol.com
> *Cc:* towntalk at riverdale-park.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 2, 2009 2:52:44 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [RP TownTalk] Street sweeping
>
> Alice
>
>
>
> Great news, how about we ticket people that litter.  We can use the money
> to help pay for the "Green Machine".
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alice Ewen Walker
> Sent: Sep 2, 2009 2:36 PM
> To: ABragg7393 at aol.com
> Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
> Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Street sweeping
>
> And our town plans to purchase a new piece of equipment soon that our DPW
> director calls the "Green Machine" - it's like a giant vacuum cleaner for
> picking up litter. We received a briefing at the work session Monday and I'm
> excited about what it will help our dedicated PW employees accomplish.
> - Alice
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, <ABragg7393 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>  Just wanted to comment that I have seen the street sweeper several times
>> in the past few weeks and I am so Happy!!!  Keep up the good work!
>> Audrey
>>
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