Gripe Vine Readers:
I have found recently that a great many of you have been expressing your pride in this city of West Haven. In your letters to Gripe Vine, you have also described the irritants you have been viewing around the city. In the many years I have been associated with West Haven there have been many occasions when my readers have described sights that disgusted them enough to sit down and write to me and ask for help.
Today’s column will be devoted exclusively to TRASH!
Today let’s see what the mailman and the emails have arrived at my desk.
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
I am sick and tired of picking up resident’s trash every week from them over filling or not putting their trash lids on their trash cans. The crows tear open the bags as which draws other animals, and the trash gets all over the neighborhood. They need to be made accountable for littering which brings rats into our homes. Respect your neighbors.
Tired of Picking up Trash lIN
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
The trash cans at the boardwalk were overflowing yesterday, November 11. Trash is all over the place!
West Haven is becoming truly, a city of litter! It saddens me. I wish that I had more energy. I would clean the city one block at a time.
MG Disgusted
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
There are no trash barrels in the Third Avenue parking lot on Beach Street. I have enclosed a photograph so you can see the accumulated mess here. Even if there were trash barrels, what’s on the ground here wouldn’t fit into the trash barrels if they were here.
Trash Barrel needed here FUR
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
The trash bins in West Haven need to be updated. They need to be secured to a post in a central location and in a visible with trash and recycling options. Trash containers must have secure lids, so trash does not blow all over the lot and the beach. It’s time to stop using the 55-gallon drums for trash bins OR get them better tops and secure them.
CTRT.
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
I see there haven’t been any changes made to trash bins all over the city. They are put in locations only to the convenience of those picking up the trash cans. Recycle? What’s that!
Curious Resident MA
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
The residents of this town have a garbage fetish. You’re going to leave those unsightly bags of garbage there to spite the city and everyone else. Birds and critters will get into the bags , the contents will spill into the street continuing the befoulment of this town and you will smugly think to yourself, “That’ll show them.” All along First Avenue and Blohm Street garbage bags will sit on top of melting snow piles for several days.
Then, as the snowflakes fall these bags and cans will tip over and the residents will ignore it because that’s the city’s garbage now. This is a very big problem in West Haven and its infantile to the degree to which so many residents refuse to take ownership of the garbage they produce and the manner *too much, too early and the manner improperly contained and too little recycling) in which they put it out for pickup.
Get With It! HM
This is the last column for Eleanore for the year. She returns in January with fresh gripes from readers. She is taking a long vacation for the holidays and we wish her the best of the season.
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