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Show CIVIC PRIDE -ONE YARD DEEP As the week moved into full swing and citizens returned re-turned to their jobs, willingly, after a week end of slaving In the back yard, after cleaning out the flower beds, raking, rak-ing, hoeing, a little plowing and with aching muscles, it is a true testimony of the arrival of spring. Saturday and Sunday citizens rose to beautiful spring weather and flocked out into the yards to clean up, to do a little pruning and to haul off the accumulations of the winter months. Truly It is an inspiration that the citizens of this community com-munity have enough personal pride that at the first sign of spring they begin to "work on the yard." It is because citizens have enough of that personal pride that Cedar City has become well known as a "well kept" community, giving giv-ing the impression of cleanliness and tidyness to the many visitors that we have each year. It isn't every community that boasts of a citizenry that keeps its homes, lots and personal property in such fine order. That fact has been a constant source of pride to our city. This personal pride has done much to make Cedar City the beautiful city that it is, but now we ask that some of tthis personal pride be shifted and expanded to include civic ci-vic pride. The individual citizen has taken tremendous strides in taking care of his own property but that pride must be expanded to include a civic pride. Why? If those citizens who so diligently cleaned up their yards over the week end and hauled off countless loads of rubbish, had taken the time to look at the five mile stretch at highway south of Cedar City between the city limits and the dump yard, it would become evident why. I Our city may be clean. Our individual property may be a show case beyond compare, but our southern approach ap-proach to the city is a disgrace. The prunings of some of our fine neighbors can be' found strewed along the five mile stretch of highway immediately im-mediately south of town as can almost any item that might be collected during the winter months from any of our yards. We realize that the trip to the city dump yard is a considerable con-siderable distance but some of our neighbors seem to think that it's a race for time between the yard and the dump with whatever happens in between of no concern to them. As a matter of fact from the looks of things along the highway, high-way, some loads of rubbish have been unloaded entirely before the dump yard was ever reached. This individual pride that the citizen of the city has, has made our city one of attraction. With very little effort ef-fort and a little thought this unsightly situation could be relieved, but not until we think of ourselves as a community communi-ty and not as individuals. |