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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Littering and Poor English
Some thoughts on Pueblo’s image problem.
People keep wondering why Pueblo has an image problem. During the past week I experienced two things which might give us a clue.
Yesterday at about 2 in the afternoon as I was on my way to a meeting at the City Planning Office, I witnessed three men littering private property at the corner of D Street and Main with the remains of their soft drinks: cups containing ice. What made this especially bad was that the three men were driving and riding in a service body truck with the Pueblo City logo on the side. I suppose they could have stolen the truck, but it is more likely that they are City employees.
For those of you unfamiliar with the area, D and Main is one block off the Union Avenue Historic District, an area of hundred-year-old commercial buildings which is having problems with vacant, poorly-maintained properties. Having City employees dumping their trash a block away certainly doesn’t help.
I am also concerned about the level of morale displayed by this act. If a City employee won’t be a booster for his own city to the extent that he refrains from littering, what can you expect out of the rest of us?