(In keeping with GMD’s policy of front-paging diaries posted for state-wide office, here is the latest from Deb Markowitz. – promoted by GMD)
Every May, when the weather turns warm, I get the urge to do a little spring cleaning. It starts with the mud room. Piles of winter clothing, miscellaneous hats and mittens and ski equipment have to be sorted and put away. Then I end up cleaning closets when I find that there is no room to store the coats, boots and snow pants that I have just rescued from the mud room. Pretty soon the whole house is in an uproar, and after a long day of chaos we find order again – with a pile of things heading to Goodwill and an overflowing garbage bin.
It is hard to believe how much junk we can accumulate in just a year!
Every May we also do spring cleaning as a state. For the past 40 years–during the first weekend in May–Vermonters in every community observe Green Up Day.
Armed with large plastic garbage bags, we roll up our sleeves, put on heavy duty gloves, and head to the roadways, the rivers, forests and parks. I am always amazed at how much litter accumulates every year.
Saturday, 40 years after Vermont’s first Green Up Day, as many as 15,000 Vermonters will mobilize across the state to clean up roadways, parks and rivers.
Green Up Day is a great example of something that Vermonters do particularly well – come together, volunteering time and effort to make our communities better places. And, just like we do a spring cleaning in our homes, it is important to remember that if we don’t take care of our beautiful state no one else will!
I know I am being critical. BUT, the Senate is still throwing Challenges around with Susan now saying to (not cut) but reappropriate 5 million in Corrections money to some hairbrained idea of performance based community response, with a week + to go in the session, Dubie is out avoiding 7th graders, Racine is actively trying to shore up our existing or remaining service structure with a thumb in the damm, assisted by Senator Ashe…
And Deb wants to talkabout green up day… is this the type of campaign we are going to get for the big bucks she has in the bank?? She wants to change Montpelier, why not start now with an opinion and a position and some action??
How is this different than Dubie at this point??? Some people have a real agenda and Idea driven campaign going…. why not ALL???