Prince Albert Pitch In starts May 1st this year. Garbage should be the responsibility of those who throw it, but in all reality, we are all responsible for making our community a wonderful place to live. Take 15 min, grab a garbage bag, put on some gloves, fill the bag with un-contained waste. This will fix your problem, and you will be far less frustrated with the situation. It is not the "right" solution, but it is the one that will work.

Maybe start a chain gang of "young re-offenders" & older thugs to clean up throughout the whole city instead of paying city employees a pile of dough to do so.

I agree with the sign comment. That thing has been an eyesore for im guessing 10 years. That is a long time with no maintenance. Also they have security......not professional security but a guy who monitors the parking lot.....give him a bag and gloves......maybe he can pick up the garbage.

Isn't there a bylaw that can be inforced with this dump.Phone bylaw untill they do something about it.

Young Offenders used to clean up several parks and ditches around the city. I was a facility youth worker that was in charge of taking them out for work crew. I no longer work at the facility, but former coworkers tell me now that strict insurance guidelines prevent the use of young offenders for these jobs. :S I think the adult populations in our institutions could become part of a new chain gang to keep our city and it's outskirts looking clean.

wasn't there a bunch of inmates used to help clean up cooke golf course when that huge plow wind came through pa the other summer? Why can't we use inmates to clean garbage and pick needles as part of paying their debt to society ...And I'm not talking about the violent, high-risk to re-offend prisoners either.

guess what?? its not just the Precious Southwood area! Its everywhere! I wish people living on that street and streets connected to it would QUIT complaining already! If you don't like it there move! simple as that. or do something about it!

"my 2 Cents" - Quit complaining !!!!

The Bingo Hall is an eye-sore and their clients pitch their garbage as they walk to their cars after anther night of BINGO. Take a walk around the bingo hall, you will find garbage everywhere. XX-large Pepsi cups seem to be the drink of choice, Cement chuncks with rebar also litter the area, which also come from the Bingo halls parking lot. Yes, Southwood is a nice area of hard-working families, and I want to keep it that way.

Are you peeps talking about Carnival Bingo? lol

Haha, Bylaw. What a joke that crew is. Ken Hunter wouldnt know a bylaw infraction if it was in front of him. I have called his office many a times and left messages with him to discuss his embattled bylaw team, but with no response. I have seen his bylaw guys writing up tickets in crescent acres for vehicles parked the wrong way on the street a few times. Totally ridiculous. I understand that parking the wrong way is a bylaw infraction, but compare that to the thousands of extreme bylaw infractions in this city and you just shake your head.

How about grab a garbage bag and clean it yourselves, i think there are more important areas of the city that need work and all your worried about is the bingo hall it's their job not bylaws

This is a buisness that does not clean up its own garbage.... I clean my yard as well as my street. When I go to a hockey game, I don't throw trash on the ground as I leave. When I go to a ball game I put all trash in the trash can. The Bingo hall and thier clients need to clean up THEIR mess.
Why can't this "buisness" clean up its own garbage?

Well the only real way to solve this problem is the neighbour hood needs to get together and go to the bingo hall and raise hell and let them know clean this crap up. If you stand back and not say anything how is this problem going to be fixed c-mon people speak up it's our city too

why not get a pair of gloves, a black garbage bag, and go do it yourself?

it is not that people can not go and clean this place up. The point is that why should they have to. Why do you need to take an almost empty drink with you and finish it in the 100 feet to your car and then throw it on the ground? The point is the patrons are PIGS and the business should be held accountable. I really think this is the worst business in that area if not in the whole city for the amount of trash people just toss around. This building really is a disgrace for a business that brings in Millions of dollars a year they could do much better.

the whole city is a dump,why not get the welfare fraudulant peeps to clean it up. but B I N G O was his name "O"
give out needles to the aids/hep infected downtown gang and get them to pick it for a clean needle!

Litter is going to happen everywhere. If you don't want to see it, go pick it up yourself. It's going to take more than this issue, to get this city cleaned up.

Hiring a student cuts thei profit.
Building a fence, cuts their profit and is WORK.
Educate the clients? How do you educate pork? I am not saying all bingo players, but the ones that need educating are.
Lets face it . If the owners/managers were responsible citizens they would do as you suggest, but..............

I believe that 'eyesores' like the garbage around the Bingo Halls are the responsibility of the business, according to current city by-laws. They fine homeowners that don't have decent looking yards, so why not businesses?

If you're that concerned about the problem, might I suggest harrassing both City Hall and the Bingo Hall until the problem is solved?

Looks like there are a few people that agree with me, thank you ALL for your comments and suggestions. Most businesses are socially responsible and take steps to keep their business and surrounding area clean, but the BINGO HALL does not seem to care about the neighborhood it belongs to. If the MANAGER and the PATRONS would just take some civic responsibility and clean up after themselvesthis would not be an issue. The Casino is a few blocks away and is spotless, maybe the Casino managment should run the Bingo HAll?

Who is the manager?
Who ownes this buisness?

Liquor & Gaming Authority - 1-306-933-7533 (Saskatoon) would most likely have the name and address of the owners of the Bingo Hall if City Hall doesn't have it. You could send a registered letter to both the Bingo Hall and the owners, stating that you'd like them to clean up the property on a regular basis. Another option might be to get City Hall By-law Enforcement into the mix. You'd have to look up the specific by-law governing the cleanliness of a property, though. I don't have it off the top of my head. www.citypa.ca/TheCity/MunicipalBylaws/tabid/77/Default.aspx has the list of bylaws but I'm not sure which one would pertain to a business.

TO all those that say "grab a bag and do it yourself".....go ahead and do that, and I thank-you for being part of the solution. However Bussinesses and residents need to keep their own yards/parkinglots cleaned up. I clean up all the crap that comes down the road from Walmart, because it is in my yard. Maybe when I am done I should toss it in the yards of the people who think the Bingo has a liscence to pollute?

i agree its an whole community effort the young offenders may be able to clean it up.

Even when the bingo hall hires someone to clean up the mess, they only clean up on their own property. All of the bingo papers stuck up against the fence on the north side of Southwood Drive need to be picked up as well

It is good to hear that many people take enough pride in their community to pick up garbage around their neighbourhood. However, this approach is not working very well. If someone asked me to handle the problem, the first thing I would do is find out where the garbage is coming from.

Certainly, there is a lot of garbage (falling) out of vehicles when they are near the fast food restaurants, and hotels. There are are many other sources for small amounts of trash as well. In my opinion, I would guess that the greatest volume of trash comes from the commercial dumpsters either when they overflow due to poor scheduling, or when they are dumped during a moderate breeze.

It's easy to blame the people who toss their fast food wrappers out of the car window, but I think the problem is more of a disposal issue on a much larger scale. If the City Hall was really serious about solving this problem, then they will have already quanified how much garbage comes from each source, and the best way to clean it up. If they haven't done this, then I would be happy to do it for them in the form of photographs, video, and statistics.

Maybe they should have some of the non profit groups who rake in the rewards of bingos, send some volunteers over to help clean up the mess.
Maybe some of the people who receive funding from the bingo could come over and pitch in.

Has this been cleaned up yet? If it has, then this item should be closed. This issue was reported three months ago, so they have had plenty of time to get this fixed. If the problem is ongoing, then the Bingo Hall management should be pressured to get this cleared up.