Barnes urging people to clean up their parks
Posted August 25, 2011 11:31 pm.
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VANCOUVER(NEWS1130)- Is it systemic, or just this one particular park?
A Park Board Commissioner is urging people to stop littering in our parks, especially one dear to her heart.
Constance Barnes with Vision Vancouver says her late father Emery would be disgusted by all the garbage on the ground in the park at Seymour and Davie named after him. “My mom and dad, we were recycling when it wasn’t cool to recycle. I mean we had the seperate boxes and stuff.”
Every time she visits, she finds coffee cups, diapers, food containers, half-eaten food, feces, and cigarette butts. “Not only you have birds that are picking them up, you’ve got kids, you turn around and there’s a little baba with a cigarette in her mouth.”
Barnes says it’s all about taking out what we bring in.”We need to be conscious of what we’re leaving – as far as litter – what happens to it. Is it the responsibilty of someone to come clean-up after you?”
As far as the ongoing expansion of Emery Barnes Park, she says it’ll be complete in the fall.
Barnes says the reason it’s taken so long was the soil was contaminated.
She’s planning a yearly, community event at the park to address some of the issues her dad was very passionate about, and one of them was the underpriviledged.
Emery Barnes was a BC Lion, social worker, politician and elected speaker of the Legislature in 1994. He died in 1998.
