By Lisa Schick

Litter, litter everywhere

Apr 14, 2011 | 11:54 AM

It’s not tumbleweeds blowing down the streets of Prince Albert lately, it’s litter.

Warm spring temperatures have revealed trash on sidewalks, streets and ditches throughout the city that was previously hidden by snow.

Garbage tends to pileup outside during the winter said Colin Innes, manager of public works with City of Prince Albert.

“Over the winter you get an accumulation of garbage and the snow covers it all up and come the spring, when it melts away, all of a sudden all that garbage that was covered up is instantly revealed to everyone,” Innes said.

City crews will start their spring cleaning in the next week or so with street sweeping and boulevard cleaning.

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The street sweeping moves on the same routes in the spring and summer as the snow removal does in the winter.

Debbie Honch, executive director of Prince Albert Tourism, said the garbage is an annual problem.

“Each year we deal with the same thing, as snow disappears, the trash appears and it’s always a real eyesore right away,” Honch said.

Prince Albert Tourism along with the City of Prince Albert and other partners are putting together this year’s clean-up days scheduled for May 1-15.

The theme for this year’s event is “Team up to Clean up.”

Honch said they have already started identifying “hot-spots” of litter in the city that need to be addressed – 15th St. E. from Sixth Avenue to Fifth Avenue East, underneath the Central Avenue viaduct and the north side of the city to the landfill are just a few.

“We’ve designated some hot-spots around the city and are encouraging folks to also be involved in identifying those areas that really, really need some attention and then helping groups and organizations to connect with those hot spots and take care of them,” said Honch.

Honch said they usually have a lot of help during the pick-up weeks – Tim Hortons, the Northern Lights Casino, the Girl Guides and especially the schools.

“The schools are out always, it’s the beginning of May so they’ve just been awesome every year, they really take care of their schoolyards and right around their schools.”

Just because they have two weeks designated to pick-up and keep the city beautiful, doesn’t mean that it has to stop after those two weeks, Honch said.

“We really try to communicate the fact that it’s not just a two-week thing, it’s a year round thing, and really to be conscious about keeping our city beautiful year-round. “

lschick@panow.com