Site needs to be cleaned after Regatta weekend |01 October 2013

Regatta, a huge success!  Really?  We need to raise the bar for the day after!

I write as a concerned citizen following the most recent Regatta 2013, held at the beautiful beach of Beau Vallon as from September 27, concluding the evening of the 29th.

Once again, the event, which had musical shows, great tasting food so I am told, boat races, the greased pole climb, and of course the lottery carrying fantastic prizes, was part of the reason for the regatta being considered a success.

What was not a success, however, was once again the approach to clean up the mountains of mess, the trash and debris, from take-away boxes, to plastic bags, and worse yet the bottles and bottles of alcohol, empty of course, all left by the roadside, in the streams, on the beach, in the bushes, in the private drive-ways of neighbours, or left floating on the sea.

The next morning as the sun rose to welcome another Monday what had been consumed at Regatta was now left quite evident for one and all to see.  Not a lovely sight at all!
Let us for next year ensure that we have clean up teams in place and using a method of approach and from the official closing of the event, sweeping into action so that within a few hours, the area the following morning is left in a better state than what we are seeing year in and out, this following past regattas.

After all what message are we sending our children as they hurry along to school seeing the mess we leave behind after a few days of celebrations?
It is more than time for the organisers of the next regatta to again raise the bar, and this time with a serious approach, addressing the issues and concerns of our environment, that of a clean beach and its environ and of Beau Vallon in general, for without it, any regatta would not be what it is.

Raymond St Ange