A CAMPAIGN to sort out canine fouling in Barnard Castle was launched on Monday.
It included the revealing of a brand new banner and indicators utilizing designs created by pupils from Green Lane and Montalbo main colleges.
The marketing campaign is being spearheaded by city councillors Fiona Turnbull and Valerie Ewart who met faculty youngsters a number of occasions to get their concepts and ideas on how you can take care of the difficulty.
The primary banner, which incorporates a design by pupil Jack Connor, was put up at Scar Top whereas indicators with different youngsters’s designs have been put up at fouling scorching spots alongside King Street and the footpath that runs previous the city cemetery.
Of the kids’s designs, Cllr Ewart stated: “The youngsters did so effectively it was tough to decide on which of them to make use of.
“We suppose they’ve carried out a superb job making the banner and we hope all of the indicators across the city are going to prick a couple of folks’s consciences.
“It is something the children feel passionately about and obviously in the town there has been a huge amount of comment on this front. We are doing our best and it is important that it becomes a community effort.”
Cllr Turnbull, who walks her German pointers Rufus and Margo each day at The Bowes Museum and thru Flatts Wood, stated she had seen a rise in incidents just lately and thought an issue is likely to be the availability and placement of canine poo bins.
Cllr Turnbull stated: “There are lots of dog poo bins around The Bowes Museum but in town there are not enough, or they are not emptied often enough.
“We have half-a-dozen or more at Scar Top, but not so many at Raby Avenue or the alley along by William Smith’s.”
The councillor stated a map can be drawn up of the placement of all of the bins to “see if they are in the right places”.
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