The Editor,After several conversations with our city manager, I was convinced that a plastic shovel should be delivered on the next visit. Sometime later after purchasing a plastic shovel it, was delivered to the mayor as the city manager was not in and he said he would deliver the shovel. This did happen and my next visit was somewhat of cold shoulder event as there was not a sense of "ha ha" anywhere to be seen.Now we have a city councillor that has received a rake and this goes hand in hand with the shovel, one to move material around the material around the other to make it nice and neat. With these two pieces of equipment we should have real good success in cleaning up our city as these two people are in the proper place to execute this problem with precision.We also have a new Bylaw Enforcement Officer that is a tiger, so I am told, and that is what we require as the city looks nice coming into it on the main arteries but this is not the working part of the city with problems. This officer must have the complete from the city manager, city clerk, mayor and every councillor to do the job correctly with no secret deals by anyone. We have a cancer in our city and we have a cure for it called bylaws.I have a few locations to mention. They are not the only ones but this will give you some idea what these people have to cope with. The Seventh Avenue and Fifth Street end lot makes you sick when you drive by. There is a C can and trailer by the cardboard drop off; the City let the Salvation Army park these items there for three months but extended it another year. The first three months, the trailer was entered three times and the C can, it was never even installed properly (nice guys finish last).The red commercial garbage pick up bins you see all over the city are supposed to be out of sight and in a contained shelter. And, last, but not least, at the entrance to the City yard, the grass is over eight feet high and that is too high for the city bylaw. Please, if you are interested, check these locations out and make your own decision.What I am writing are the same thoughts of many people in our city who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them.Dale M Wetsch,Estevan, Sask.
