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Time: Monday, July 21, 5:15 p.m. Place: The parking lot on Oka Road just east of the town's centre, across from the Town of Two Mountains public library. A trash barrel placed in a convenient public place is a great idea — as long as people use it. From all appearances, many people who've been stopping in the parking lot (which apparently also doubles as a rest area) have brought along lunch purchased from a nearby McDonald's. Packaging and paper, with the fast food chain's logo all over, is scattered all around the trash barrel, but very little of it is in the barrel proper.
Where is Public Works?
People, especially those passing quickly through, along Two Mountains's main street, can almost be expected not to care for the community or to heed the rules. But the real question is: where are the town's public works crews when they're needed to clean up such messes (which only erode Two Mountains's traditional sense of dignity and pride)? "Usually it's clean. I'm going to check that," Mayor Marc Lauzon told the North Shore News, when informed of the problem. He insisted the town's public works department is supposed to clean the area regularly. "Sometimes, of course, it can happen that it's full, and sometimes it's clean.
A lunch stop
"They have rounds to do," added Lauzon. "This is a spot just like others with garbage cans in Deux Montagnes." According to Lauzon, the parking area in question serves a small riverside park. Many of the park's users appear to be motorists who stop to eat take-out food they've just purchased. "It's for the park," he said, "for people to have the chance to go there to see, to go to have a little place and they can look at the river and enjoy the view … Of course, it's a park in Deux Montagnes, so it's for the citizens of Deux Montagnes and others, as with other parks in other towns."
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