Ballina Community Clean Up - A great initiative

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I’ve been talking about all the work that is being done in Ballina, Ireland, in anticipation of the visit of Joe Biden later this week. There has been a van parked in the street most days with Community Clean Up written on the sides. I discovered that Ballina Community Clean Up is a group of individuals dedicated to enhancing their town and its surroundings. They have certainly been going all out since we’ve been here. They have been caulking round gutters and drainpipes as well as painting and cleaning. I don’t know who the buildings belong to and why the owners don’t do the work but perhaps they give donations to the group. They have a lot of fun while they work. The photos are taken from our tiny balcony. On the right photo, you can see how a shop front has been painted blue. The shop front to our left is a bright pink at the moment but I think that is the undercoat. Another of their initiatives is to plant a tree for every Ballina resident. This is to celebrate Ballina’s 300th anniversary, which occurs this year. What a great initiative.