Community graffiti clean-up begins

Community graffiti clean-up begins The community clean-up of the graffiti in Stone began today. We were also very encouraged by the many comments of passers-by today and by the traffic as they honked their horns and waved to us. Arm your self with buckets, rubber gloves, scrubbing brushes and household cleaning products (oven cleaner works the best) and we'll always provide the heavy duty chemicals. This Sunday (6th May) at 11am the people of Stone will gather in Christ Church car park to remove the rest of the graffiti. When there is damage or vandalism done people always seem to point the finger at the young people. I thought the clean-up was going to involve just me and a couple others, but thanks to A Little Bit of Stone and local police officers and the use of social media we ended up with quite a team! Today was somewhat experimental. It really angered me, and I thought to myself, 'We need to do something about this!'. However as a youth and children's worker I can tell you that the many young people and children I have come in contact with this week have been upset, offended and angered by the graffiti and I am sure many will join us in the clean up this Sunday. We now know what works, and we're ready to go out again! We have managed to get industrial spray paint remover and local businesses have pledged to lend us a couple of power washers. We will even like to invite everybody who is able help us to join us for lunch in the Christ Church Centre at 1pm where there will be plenty bacon and sausage sandwiches to go round! I would like to thank the police, councillors, the staff of M-viron (who sent five of their staff to help) and the lots of people who supported us today. Well done for organising this Kieran, I may struggle on Sunday but will do what I can on Friday. On a side note. Let's hope we can keep it away now!. Glad you got the pressure washers sorted, I had an idea for getting some but it seems you're sorted for now! Well done to all of the volunteers who have proved again what a great community this is. After all, we're a church in the community, for the community and our goal is to serve the community. Let's kick off our Jubilee and Olympic celebrations by rallying together as a community and removing these 'tags'. I hope to see you Sunday. Thanks Kieran. Community graffiti clean-up begins Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 03/05/2012