Pinetown locals get together to make the town beautiful again
According to the duo, Pinetown has lost its beauty as it has become riddled with rubbish.
LAST Tuesday, May 10, Cowies Hill residents Zane Welensky and Sherryll Galvin decided to take back their town.
“In 1972, the Highway Mail published an article about Pinetown being one of the best and safest places in the world. Upon reading this, I had to try and find a way to restore our hometown,” Welensky explained. This motivated the friends to create a Keep Pinetown Beautiful initiative.
To kickstart the initiative the community champions will hold a massive clean-up.
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Taking place on Saturday, May 21 at 08:00, the clean-up is the first step in ‘keeping Pinetown beautiful’.
“We will form groups and target affected areas that desperately need to be cleaned up,” said Welensky. “Bring your gloves, sturdy footwear, Dad’s old tongs, plastic municipal bags and, of course, a willingness to join something of great value,” he added.
The pair said they started this initiative in hopes of restoring and preserving the suburb’s natural beauty. “A clean environment impacts in many ways: it provides a feel-good frame of well-being, better hygiene, it helps restore pride in our hometown and creates an overall better and safer society,” said a hopeful Welensky.
According to Galvin, she appealed to a local community group in search of volunteers who would be available to participate in the clean-up, and to her surprise, in less than three days, she had close to 70 volunteers. The duo further contacted Kim Du Toit from Cowies Hill Estate, and Liesel Muhl from Keep Westville Beautiful, to assist them in their journey.
“We are in no doubt that our Pinetown residents will come out in numbers to take back their hometown, as they did during the floods and looting,” said Galvin. “Rome was not built in a day. That being said, we have to start somewhere.”
“We have to make a difference because it’s the right thing to do. Sometimes, knowing is not enough. We need to take action to cause a reaction,” Welensky concluded.
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