Hi Joey, I was thinking of you and all the wonderful deeds you do for our community, which lead me to thinking…”I wonder if Good Morning Gloucester” is all about the good, the fun, and the beautiful. Please know that I would never expect to use GMG as a podium for one of my maddening rants, but I wanted to throw these two photos at you, trying perhaps, to get someone elses blood boiling other than my own.
While walking my dog this morning on Pavillion Beach I took the photo of the makeshift ashtray in which someone has made a poor attempt at NOT being a Litterbug. Seriously?Take it one step further and find a trash barrel! Please!!! So, I’m posting my photo into my album on the computer, which takes all of a few minutes, and in that time someone actually cleaned out their car in the parking lot across the street from my house. See second photo. I couldn’t believe it, then asked myself, “Why can’t I ever catch them in the act?”
Now I’ll take an hour out of my day and walk the beach with a Yellow Bag, to pick up some things that others have been so unkind to leave behind.
I don’t ask that you forward this to your most informative website, but I do thank you for letting me vent! If there ever comes a time when you have a local “rant” section, I’m readily available.
Yellow Trash bags for anyone desiring to pick up litter can get them any weekday at the Gloucester DPW. Earth Day ~~~ Everyday!
Send me a bill for the Psychiatric Fees!
Love, Laurel
Good Morning Gloucester 
towns are cutting costs by removing the public trash barrels from the public parks and playgrounds and sports fields. They have pompous signs, “this is a carry in, carry out” recreation area.” It means that you now find a toddler’s soggy Pampers diaper, a bunch of cans, plastic cups, empty wrappers, and other bizarre detritus of a public who refuses to carry out what they either forgot or can’t deal with when they find there’s no trash barrel, OR, they can’t be bothered. Immature people waiting for Mommy to clean up for them….
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Thank you for that posting, cigarette butts are my pet peeve, along with other littering, and cigarette butts need to be understood that it is littering to throw them on the ground… time to fine for littering..
Thank you again.
Donna
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That is one of favorite spots and everytime I’m there with the kids I bring an extra bag to pick up the playground. Always surprises me to see trash within arms length of a trash barrel.
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You know I see the same thing in the GHS Parking Lot – I was all ready to pounce on the teenagers that hang around there every night I was spitting mad…until I noticed one of our own homeboys as joey c calls them (Gulls) pulling the trash out of the trash bins and eating whatever they could find. We need better receptacles with lids!! Damn birds..
Not saying it wasn’t lazy knuckleheads in your case though…
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F’rinstance–There’s only ONE trashcan, outside Tedeschi’s, on the whole stretch of Washington St. from St. Joan’s horse’s ass to Prospect St. and with all those take out places, etc. etc. , the whole block’s a dump! Plus! Where’s the PRIDE, Glosta? C’mon! Do the right thing!
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That person should be ashamed of him/her self!!!
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Never let anyone stop you from imagining a clean environment.
Health is a result of environmental signals to your DNA.
Every time you make a good choice against litter, positive chemical reactions happen instantly in your body & brain that make you more
healthy and alive.
In other words… Picking Up Litter = Free Drugs created by your brain.
Future generations will not tolerate litter.
In hope of Peace & Synergy & Holo Pono
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The doggie doo people are even worse. There are often bags in the dispensers along the Boulevard, but no one seems to use them. Last time my sister and I visited with our dog, we brought extras and stuffed them in the dispenser in hopes that some people would use them. Nothing worse than stepping in doo on a hot day when you have to go back to work.
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Don’t even get me started on this topic! Yes, I’m a dog owner and it’s absolutely disgusting how other dog owners turn a blind eye.
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