Nine-year-old’s trash can request gets committee OK

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SOMETIMES, you can take on city hall.

A nine-year-old’s call for more trash bins is moving forward.

Grade 4 student Jake Hultin recently wrote to his city councillor to ask for more garbage bins, after walking long distances to dispose of his dog’s poop bags.

JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jake Hultin carries a bag of his puppy Mauiճ poop as they go for a walk Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Nine year old Hutlin wrote a letter to the city after he noticed that Charleswood is lacking garbage cans for him to drop his doggie bags and litter while out for a walk. Hutlin is asking the city to put out more garbage cans. Re: Joyanne
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jake Hultin carries a bag of his puppy Mauiճ poop as they go for a walk Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Nine year old Hutlin wrote a letter to the city after he noticed that Charleswood is lacking garbage cans for him to drop his doggie bags and litter while out for a walk. Hutlin is asking the city to put out more garbage cans. Re: Joyanne

The letter led Coun. Kevin Klein to raise a motion calling for garbage receptacles at three more locations: Rannock Avenue at Dale Boulevard; Dale Boulevard at the Harte Trail and Cullen Drive north of Hammond Road.

Council’s Assiniboia community committee passed a motion calling for the new bins on Wednesday, which will require full council approval.

In 2021, the city received 1,134 complaints about overflowing or damaged litter bins, with another 94 filed in 2022.

Joyanne Pursaga

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