STARTING this week, The Herald is inviting you to help us clean up Farnham.
We want you to tell us which areas need cleaning up. Contact us by e-mail, telephone, fax or drop into our offices. We also want your pictures of the messier parts of town.
Last month The Herald reported Farnham in Bloom chairman Madge Green's call to clean up pigeon mess. And last week Waverley councillor Gill Ferguson, who lives in Castle Street, called for litter and weeds to be cleared up.
"I appeal to everyone to join Waverley in helping to clean up Farnham to do justice to an historic market town," said Miss Ferguson, who added a clean-up would be timely, with next week's launch of Jonathan Wood's A Portrait of Farnham, celebrating the town's historic architecture.
"Every bit will help and the cleaner and tidier the town, the easier it will be to keep clean."
Miss Ferguson says Waverley council is tackling litter control with "renewed vigour" and is increasing its monitoring of its contractors."
But she is calling for county council money allocated for weed control in the town centre to be spent on litter instead and extend the litter cleaning contract to include weed clearance as well. "We need the help of commercial landlords, shops offices and residents," she added. .
Do your bit to clean up Farnham. Phone the Herald's editorial department on 725224, fax us on 899267, e-mail us at [email protected]">[email protected], or drop into our offices at 114-115 West Street.
Right: Gill Ferguson gets to grips with some unwanted weeds. (FOD38-907-03)