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Saturday, May 31, 2008. 8:30 A.M. A lone S.U.V. coasted slowly down Monmouth Road with a P.A. blasting the sound loop from Robin Williams "Gooooood M-o-r-n-i-n-g Vietnam!" Amidst the rapid fire banging of doors appeared a ready infantry wielding brooms and shovels all the while hoisting mugs of hot java. That was the moment when the annual Monmouth Road Street Sweep Began. Neighbours new and old came out and greeted each other for the first time since last autumn. Powered by an endless supply of hot, aromatic coffee from Taloola Cafe this determined group scraped last winter's road goop off of Monmouth Road. Just in time for Old Walkerville's Art in the Park which starts this coming Saturday. Three hours and one half ton of road cheese later the Mission was accomplished. Victory was evident. What a neighbourhood!
Tag Team
Scraping
Greatest Neighbours
Broadway and Fourth Street
1000 miles per gallon
The Details
Chain Gang
Silvain Serves it up Fresh
Lookin Spanky
This is so clean I have to run on it.
Movin on.
Finishing touches
Gittin er done.
Face off.
No job too small.
Even one of John Holt's Cobaltians showed up.
Fidel's brother is anal too.
A whole season of catching up.
Kiss me Kate. I mean it.
Everybody pitched in
Does anybody have an extra 3000 feet of hose?
Cool broom
To his worship's, the honourable City Planner's Door. A load of Road goo.
Thanks everyone! Once again we've got the shiniest street in all of Old Walkerville. How cool is that?
6 comments:
From the first houses to the last, the street sweepers worked and made Monmouth even prettier than usual! I turned my attention to the alley behind 725 and worked for about 2 hours trying to control the mess back there. Our Mayor says the alleys are important, too, and an improvement was made...now I just have to get the junk hauled off to the dump before Art in the Park! Thanks,everyone, for the diligent effort. Great party, great work!
Congrats, everyone on a truly monumental effort. Not only de-crapping the street but building stronger neighbourhood bonds.
You could teach the rest of this fair cities residents a thing or two about being a good neighbour!
BRAVO.... brings back memories.
good job, and let em know, community pride and cohesion is alive and well.
I wonder if you guys would be interested in running a highway through there. I mean short tunnels.
just kidding.
Beautiful neighborhood. Keep a good eye on it.
If only we could get the city to work that way...wonderful job from a great neighborhood. I can only wish to do the same one day....
If only we could get the city to work that way...wonderful job from a great neighborhood. I can only wish to do the same one day....
Now, if we could only get people to stop blasting R.E.M, letting their dogs bark all night, and using power tools all week-end, this neighbourhood would actually be cool.
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