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08/08/2006: "Town Offers Dustpans & Brooms To Businesses"

Friday Harbor Mayor Jones has made an offer to provide long-handled dustpans -with brooms- to any business in town as a symbol of the Town's support of efforts to keep the streets clean, and as a show of support for the "Clean Up" program that has been started by those local businesses that have come together as the Downtown Forum to address issues of concern.

According to Debbie Pigman, Executive Director. SJI Chamber of Commerce, "it was the consensus of the Forum, after it's first discussion of litter on sidewalks and curbs, that the first action would be to encourage each business to take responsibility for keeping their storefront clean....we delivered a flyer "Sweep in Business - Clean storefronts attract more traffic, opening the door for increased revenue!". The flyer was well received. The members of the forum gave Mayor Jones a ‘thumbs up' to go ahead with the idea and commended the town on this cooperative effort as part of the big process of addressing and solving the issues of litter in Friday Harbor".