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Show City-wide clean-up planned for Cedar CEDAR CITY - Cedar City is scheduled to receive a facelift in the near future and the whole town is encouraged to get in and help. To be more exact, the Cedar City Beautification Committee has decided to schedule a city-wide clean-up where homes, schools, churches and even stores will be given the once over. The big clean-up will take place during Beautification Week, May 10 through 15, and the Beautification Committee invites all of Cedar City to get out and clean the town up. "We want everyone to take a real hard look at the town and their yards. We would like to make our town even more attractive, at-tractive, explained Committee Chairman Guil Funston. According to Funston the Committee is planning plan-ning an outstanding clean-up week for Cedar City. He says that plans are tentative at this time but adds that Beautification Week should go as planned. throughout the week information booths are planned to be located in the downtown area and on the campus of Southern Utah State College. At these booths residents can obtain free advice and information on how to properly take care of lawns and plants, or other tidbits of information in-formation about such things as weed abatement. As an added incentive, free trees will be given away, one per house to be used in home beautification. Funston explained the Mayor Robert Linford is expected to sign a proclamation to make the week official and that awards for participation, "instead of nicest or best," will be given away. Funston says that the committee is still in the process of organizing the week, but that by the time May 10 rolls around, "the Cedar City clean up campaign will be ready." Tentative Beautification Week plans are as follows A breakfast is scheduled for the morning mor-ning of May 10 to officially of-ficially start the week. Everyone is invited to attend. Following the breakfast, break-fast, downtown merchants mer-chants will begin their cleaning to make Cedar's downtown more attractive. at-tractive. Funston explained ex-plained that hopefully the state will wash Main Street down and to help clean out all the gutters. Also on this first day the city will be taking an inventory of all its equipment and property while at the same time cleaning them. On May 11 the Boy Scouts of America will clean the entrances to Cedar City, "north, south, east and west," added Funston. The schools in Cedar City on May 12 will conduct a school clean-up and will plant trees on the school grounds. The main project for the week will take place on May 13. Groundbreaking Ground-breaking for the downtown down-town entrance to Cedar City, as part of the Cedar City redevelopment project, will take place. Trees are to be planted, planters formed and forms set to begin construction con-struction on the entrance. Finally, the community com-munity spring clean day is planned for May 15. The entire town will be encouraged to clean up yards. The city, and other people will be around to pick up refuse from the day's cleaning. |
