Besides cleaning litter, Queen City Pride Plainfield NJ is also taking down illegal signs on poles.
Queen City Pride invites volunteers to join an effort Sunday to clean up Park Avenue from Sloane Boulevard to Seventh Street, up the east side and back down the west side, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The organizers are dubbing it the "Puttin' on the Ritz" campaign, which gave me an instant earworm of the Irving Berlin song. But then the hip-hop dirge "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash took over my brain as I pondered some other urban issues around Park & Seventh.
Anyway, the Oct. 15 turnout was the best yet, organizers said, They are recommending the effort as a way for those who need civic hours for Boy or Girl Scouts, Confirmation or school to gain credits.
The group now has a Facebook page and has taken down 350 of those ads people post on poles.
Congratulations to all who took part or will join in on Sunday!
Great to hear they are taking down the signs. Hopefully City Yards can help and maintain taking them down as they pass them. They were out of control.
ReplyDeleteIt is so nice to see the absence of the trashy signs. I have never understood why the City did not enforce the prohibition against posting them? I think that nothing more than a call to the advertised numbers from a City official would have discouraged the continuation. I am hopeful when the perpetrators see their handiwork disappearing they will relent. Congratulations to the posse that is doing the round up. Bill Kruse
ReplyDeleteI REMEMBER YEARS AGO CAPT RUTH HAD A TASK FORCE OUT DEALING WITH THE SIGN POSTERS.
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