City Council President and candidate for mayor Scott Lennon is taking an idea made popular by Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley and offering Newton kids $5 Cabots gift cards for shoveling out Newton fire hydrants and posting a photographic proof on social media.
Here’s just a few of the many photos presently on Lennon’s Twitter feed.
Awesome job!!!!! The GC is on the way! #NewtonMa @Newtonfire_863 @NewtonFireDept https://t.co/YdOddtkh4S
— Scott F. Lennon (@ScottFLennon) February 11, 2017
#3016 & #3017 shoveled out! They seemed somewhat done (perhaps from yesterday), so we decided to do both. @NewtonFireDept @ScottFLennon pic.twitter.com/K53U3Mt0fX
— Courtney E. Cole PhD (@cecphd) February 10, 2017
Wonderful work!! Msg me an address so I can do my part! Thank u! #NewtonMa @Newtonfire_863 @NewtonFireDept https://t.co/GD8bdqQPvc
— Scott F. Lennon (@ScottFLennon) February 11, 2017
@ScottFLennon @NewtonFireDept the first three were clear but they finally found one pic.twitter.com/dCl6F9Srjx
— Timothy Caputo (@timcaputo) February 10, 2017
Great job Charlie & Henry! #NewtonMa @Newtonfire_863 @NewtonFireDept https://t.co/n248vv87tu
— Scott F. Lennon (@ScottFLennon) February 11, 2017
Hydrant 3069 cleared out by Charlie & Henry. Happy to help our awesome firefighters! @NewtonFireDept @ScottFLennon pic.twitter.com/bOrjSWtlQl
— David Padgett (@CoachPadgett) February 10, 2017
Awesome job!!!!! The GC is on the way! #NewtonMa @Newtonfire_863 @NewtonFireDept https://t.co/YdOddtkh4S
— Scott F. Lennon (@ScottFLennon) February 11, 2017
@NewtonFireDept , @ScottFLennon 1 hydrant shoveled out. @jplicks pic.twitter.com/6o499DlCE3
— Rob Walsh (@Robbowalshie) February 10, 2017
I love this idea!
Every once in a while I’m reminded of my elementary school roots and miss these cute faces.
Great photos!
Ice cream for shoveling. Great idea and great photos.
At the risk of going all Michelle Obama here, though this is a great gesture, I’m not sure using high caloric, sugar loaded treats as positive reinforcement for a job well done is the correct message to send. I’m sure kids would have been happy to help regardless and maybe a deputy firefighters badge or medal would have been a better reward… Just a thought.
Yeah ’cause a medal or a trophy is so much more FUN than ice cream.
C’mon Leopold, not EVERYTHING needs to be good for us. A little ice cream never killed anyone. Lighten up.
Clever move by Councilor Lennon.
@Leopold, Councilor Danberg’s husband is a pediatric dentist. Perhaps she can be persuaded to give out free checkups to kids who dig out fire hydrants.
Or maybe she can give out free toothbrushes and tooth paste for every hydrant cleaned out. I am sure that the kids will be running out to clean out the hydrants for those “dental goodies”!
While on the subject, how bout them ‘big belly’ compactors and accompanying recycling containers. So many unshoveled around the city with the red lites a beepin’ – P&R trucks can’t get the big belly doors open thru the ice banks to service. Shoveling out the ice is not in their job description. These cumbersome shrines to waste technology are not suited to practical application. They are also hazards to public safety as one gentleman in front of the Newtonville post office put it as he could no longer get thru to the sidewalk from the street.
Where was Lennon and Fuller on the mayor’s showpiece to innovation??
There you go again Harry. If a charter commission ever chooses to create a new position of City Curmudgeon you can count on my vote!
Snow shoveling challenges aside, Big Bellys’ reduce litter, smelly trash and vermin. It’s easy to forget now about those unsightly, overflowing trash barrels that these solar powered, smart technology compactors have replaced in our village centers. This is one example of how things are better than they were in the good old days.