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North Street Project Blog: Clean Up After Yourself

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 7:37am.

North Street Project Blog wants a clean neighborhood, even if they're ripping up North Street:

My father reads my blogs each day and on Friday announced I was sounding crotchety.

I love the word crotchety.

Let's examine it shall we.

From Dictionary.com

crotch·et·y [kroch-i-tee] adjective .given to odd notions, whims, grouchiness, etc.

Yeppers, that's me.

I've got a few odd notions this week. Garbage (didn't see that one coming did you?), Oil and grease spills (photos below) and raw sewage.

Let's begin, shall we?

I want our neighborhood cleaned up.

NO, not the actual construction debris.

Just the effin' garbage.

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This got written up in the

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:21am.

This got written up in the Zero this morning. Predictably there were Litter Supporters - those who believe in the artistic expression of raw sewage - who called him a whiner in the comments.

You can blow out a candle / But you can't blow out a fire / Once the flames begin to catch / The wind will blow it higher

Craftsmanship

Submitted by Rob Richards on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:44am.

A worker who takes pride in their work cleans up at the end of the day, if not after every step. My dad had a house that the health department would wince at, but he was also a master mechanic that had a shop that was immaculate. Everything put away, floors swept and mopped daily, etc. There's really no excuse for workers to leave trash laying around, especially in someone else's neighborhood. I can see if you're on a site maybe you have a trash pile hidden that gets picked up weekly, but not on a public street. Has the foreman been contacted? That would be a good first step for the folks who live there.

Garbage sucks but

Submitted by Laurian on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 4:12pm.

Fritsch said he was worried that leaves from a cedar tree above the stall (a Porta Potty) would be ignited if workers smoked in the bathroom. -The Olympian 28 May

Huh?

I'm fairly acquainted with

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 6:40am.

I'm fairly acquainted with him and I'm possitive it's one of two things: Either there was something not mentioned that would make sense, or he was kidding around with that line.

You can blow out a candle / But you can't blow out a fire / Once the flames begin to catch / The wind will blow it higher

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