Election Year is here, and it's time for
politicians to really listen to the people. The people are not
happy. The people in Capreol have less service for snow
removal. Why? Because storing our equipment at Suez results in
time and money wasted in travel. For example, what was once a
day process is now two. Pile the snow downtown one day, bounce
the equipment back to Suez at night, and bring it back the next
day to haul the snow away.
Termination of our hydro operation cost four
jobs to our community. Previously, street lights were checked
every Friday and replaced before the weekend. Changing a light
now takes weeks, another decline in service.
You have to put pride back into the outlying
areas to get volunteerism on stream.
Capreol had a system for summer flowers and
plants in our parks. Volunteers planned, pruned and planted,
and summer students and town employees kept the plants weeded
and watered. Last summer, with the exception of downtown
hanging baskets, the flowers and shrubs were neglected to the
point of embarrassment. Why? City staff were spread thin and
not assigned these tasks in Capreol.
You can't expect people to plant flowers with
donated time in Capreol when everyone knows Notre Dame and
Paris Street get planted and maintained by city employees: and
therefore, downtown Sudbury looks wonderful when Communities in
Bloom comes to call.
Frank R. Mazzuca told me this would
happen.
Thank God he's still here to tell me, "I told
you so."
F.E. Mazzuca
Capreol