Parkview library restored by residents

Parkview residents step up to help restore the library’s garden.

Following a story published in the Rosebank Killarney Gazette, New chapter at library garden [Week ending 14 May], Parkview residents who also played a relevant part in the library clean-up came forward.

After seeing the library’s garden in a bad state – so much that some members of the public were using the library grounds as a public toilet – the group of four took it upon themselves to do something about it. The group includes Prudence Nicholas and Evelynne Payne who own shops right opposite the library as well as Susan and Thabo Mamiane.

“My mother buys books from the library and she has been doing so for years now. When we walked in, we could not believe the state the library was in,” said Susan Mamiane who played a part in the clean-up.

“We approached the library and asked to do the clean-up, received approval and started working on it I think two days later,” Mamiane added.

They hired their own gardener, used their tools, and hired a bakkie which had to collect and remove all the waste collected from the cleaning. The clean-up started at the end of February and took a period of seven weeks. It involved cutting, weeding, and chopping the grass as well as removing all the waste that was on the premises which amounted to more than 40 bags of rubbish.

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