The City of Duncan shared a little love on its Facebook page last week, crediting its employees with a bright idea.
"It’s time for the annual downtown power-wash cleanup which typically involves hosing down all the sidewalks in the core as well as City Square. Due to the lack of rain, coupled with the dust from the Canada Avenue/Ingram Street upgrades, the downtown core is pretty dirty," officials shared.
"In an effort to conserve water, resourceful City crew members came up with an alternate plan. Rather than use a deluge gun which is a large volume water hose, they experimented with great results doing a pre-washing blow with the leaf blower," they said. "By doing this in advance and effectively removing all the loose material first, they are able to then follow with only the low volume pressure wash guns reducing water consumption from 2,000 gallons per day down to less than 500, a 75 per cent savings. Kudos to those staff who make the effort to try and come up with different ways that we can conserve water."
On Tuesday, June 16 at the annual general meeting, Cowichan Green Community announced the winners of the 2015 Green Superhero Awards and 2015 Board of the Year Award.
Both awards recognize and honour community members and groups who demonstrate leadership within the Cowichan Region. The Green Superheroes of 2015 went out to Vancouver Island University’s Workplace and Essential Skills Training class of 2015 for the Youth category; U-Fix It BikeWorks for the Group category; and Craig Evans for the Individual category. The 2015 Board of the Year Award went out the board of the Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association.
"Make sure to congratulate these proud winners for their great accomplishments and work in the Cowichan Region," the CGC urged.
