Ashton community spruces up its surroundings

A FIRST litter pick in a small community in Ashton-under-Lyne proved such a success that they may take place on a more regular basis. 

Residents young and old turned out to show that looking after the area they live in matters to them.

Pupils, parents and staff from St James’ CE Primary School were joined by members of St James’ Church, as well as Scouts from 3rd Ashton and local councillors Bill Fairfoull, Jean Drennan and Andrew McLaren.

Ashton scouts community litter pick

The group armed themselves with bin liners, brushes and shovels as they cleaned the church grounds before taking to nearby streets – including Egerton Street, Romley Street and Westbury Street – to ensure they were left spick and span.

Their first outing saw more than 20 bags of rubbish collected.

Alan Fish, who recently stepped down as Chair of North Tameside Scouts District but still continues to support local Scouting, said: “This showed the best of the community of St James’, both adults and children plus 3rd Ashton Scouts, showing that they cared for their surroundings where they lived, worked, played, schooled and worshipped in their respective faiths.

“It was such a success that plans are afoot to hold more litter picks on a monthly basis.”

Tina Howarth, the Verger at St James’ Church, thanked everyone who gave their time and energy to make the first litter pick a most enjoyable and successful event.

Anyone who would like to help with litter picking or join the Scouts can contact Alan by emailing alan.fish.161te@gmail.com or calling 07931 765 120.

 

2 Replies to “Ashton community spruces up its surroundings”

  1. Top marks to the community – but only the community.

    As can be seen in the picture linked to below, general litter has been with us for a very long time. What hasn’t is the dumping of household refuse and bulky items on our streets – lots of it!

    Evan a dimwit knows that if bags of household refuse are left on the streets before being shifted, which they often are, and if animals split the bags, some of their contents can get scattered about by the wind and litter an area. This isn’t rocket science.

    As for councillors, I’ve never seen any serious attempt in the past by any to try to get to the root of why so much is being dumped. In fact, many years ago I emailed all 12 Ashton councillors about a bulky item dumped on a main Ashton thoroughfare, reported and ignored for over two weeks, but 10 couldn’t even manage an acknowledgement, let alone a reply.

    Link:

    https://publicdelivery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Martin-Parr-GB.-England.-New-Brighton.-From-The-Last-Resort.-1983-85-LON6982.jpg

  2. I notice that he reply I posted yesterday, critical of Tameside council and its councillors, has been removed.

    As one who was blocked years ago from the Correspondent’s Facebook page for criticising Tameside council, it comes as no surprise.

    No matter, I won’t sully your pages with my comments again.

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