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Show Deautification - Everybody's Job Cedar City is an attractive community, but has plenty of room for improvement, a fact that should be remembered remem-bered as spring opens up and clean-up, fix-up, paint-up and general beautification programs get under way. One thing that should be emphasized is the fact that to be a genuine success any beautification program must receive the support of everyone. Even if 95 to 98 per cent of the property owners do an exceptional job of beautification beautifi-cation the overall effect can be nullified because one or two lots on each street are lelt uncared for, covered with debris and weeds left to grow throughout the season. Unkept vacant lots, junky yards with tumbled down barns and sheds detract from the entire neighborhood, and can spoil the appearance of an otherwise clean and attractive street. There are vacant lots in all parts of town, some owned by local residents and some owned by people peo-ple who have moved away, that become nothing but weed patches each summer. Not only the lots themselves are uncared for, but weeds are allowed to grow along the side walks in front of such lots, until many of them are nothing noth-ing more than an eyesore. No matter how hard a property owner works to clean up his yard, front and back, or how much beautification work he does, most of the attractiveness can be lost because be-cause his neighbor keeps a messy, weedy, debris covered lot. We hope everyone catches the spirit of city beautification beautifi-cation clean-up campaigns this year, to make Cedar City a really beautiful community. A glaring example of what lack of civic pride can do to a community has developed since the garbage dump has been moved to a new location south of the city with the approach following along the state highway for about two miles. The new dump has been used for only a short time, but the highway from the south city limits to where the road turns off the highway is beginning to look like a garbage dump. Nothing short of downright laziness or even slovcnness would prompt a person to scatter garbage along the highway. Certainly any individual who scatters garbage and trash along the road is indifferent to the appearance ap-pearance of his community. If the present lack of care in hauling garbage to the new site is allowed to continue the southern approach to the city will soon become a disgraceful sight. It may take some rather harsh action on the part of law-enforcement officials to correct the situation, but now is the time to take that action. If the roadside is littered with trash, more and more trash will be carelessly dumped there. If the roadside is kept clean and severe penalties are meted out to those who carelessly scatter garbage along the road, the problem can be overcome. |