Tidiness includes an overall tidiness effort made by the municipality, businesses, institutions, and residents of the community. Elements for evaluation are green spaces (parks, etc), medians, boulevards, sidewalks, streets, municipal, commercial, institutional and residential properties, ditches, road shoulders, vacant lots and buildings and signage, with regard to weeds, maintenance and repair, graffiti and vandalism.
Communities in Bloom Tidiness Award Winners
2009: Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Success in having tidy streets,
sidewalks and buildings in Chatham-Kent, municipality comprised of 7 primary urban areas, 6 secondary urban areas, 5 hamlets and 101 settlement areas (over 616 000 acres!) is clearly a partnership effort involving the entire community!
2008: City of London, Ontario
What used to be a one day event where volunteers planted trees, scrubbed down graffiti and picked up litter around the city has turned into 5 days of full blown participation. This year, 8,000 people worked together at the 13th annual Clean and Green Event in London. Volunteer ranks exceeded last year by more than 2,000.
Over the 5 day event volunteers came from businesses, BIA’s, Church groups, Schools and the Covent Garden Market Businesses sponsored breakfasts, bags and prizes for the volunteers.
2007: City of Mississauga, Ontario
There can be no doubt that Mississauga’s efforts to keep the City clean and tidy are working. No matter how many programs a city may have in place, it is the enforcement aspect which will demonstrate its position.
Engaging every part of the community by way of the many programs designed to achieve a litter-free environment is commendable, and the City’s efforts in keeping its parks and open spaces clean on a daily basis go a long way in demonstrating its commitment.
The LitterNot program is a most effective way to gain a longer-term commitment from those organizations which become involved, and promotion of the Litterbug campaign is a great educational tool which targets the younger population and attempts to gain their acceptance of personal responsibility for litter control.
The City of Mississauga has set a very high standard in tidiness.
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2006: City of Brooks, Alberta
The City of Brooks Communities in Bloom Committee chose tidiness as their theme this year and concentrated their effort in this area.
The committee was successful in involving all sectors of the city including city staff, business and industrial owners, service clubs, schools, churches and residents in clean-up campaigns and other tidiness efforts.
The initiative of appointing volunteer coordinators to spearhead the clean-up programs proved to be very successful in making Brooks a very attractive and tidy city.
The suggestion to divide the city into sections and have families, businesses and neighbours adopt various areas of the city is an excellent idea.
Keep up the good work!