Sir,
Our first Oban spring clean is over and must be considered a great success. We would like to thank the crowd of volunteers of all ages who rallied to the cause and turned out to make our spring clean so worthwhile. I would like especially to thank our secretary, Claire Rizos, for organising the event and for dealing with the equipment hand outs and returns, also Janie Steele for her dedication and involvement with the beach cleans, and Faisal Juwel from Argyll and Bute Council for giving up his weekend to chase around the town picking up the bags to fill the skip which he’d organised at Rockfield. We should also thank the MacQueen Bros Charitable Trust for buying litter pickers for us, BID4Oban for helping to circulate our information to the business community and the GRAB Trust, for lending equipment. Thanks also to the kind folk at the Bridge Café who gave the Black Lynn volunteers free coffee and cakes.
We need to tackle the root cause of the littering and we hope that the community will continue to assist and encourage us in this.