I Hate My Community

OK. Today was recycling day in my neighbourhood. I woke up at around 7am, dutifully separated the items in my blue bin, and hauled er' outside. I was getting ready for school and heard the truck go by, assuming everything was hunky dory. As a proceeded to leave for school, I decided to bring my blue bin back inside, so that my lovely lil' street was not obscured by my massive blue box. I noticed that the recycling men did not take everything and as I turned over my blue box, I started to swear.
One of my neighbours, I have yet to uncover their identity, had decided to fill my blue box with all their unwantables/ non- recycables. It was the opposite of burglaring. They left me presents. A coffee maker, some mugs and a whack of styrofoam. Those bastards.
I've met my neighbours, they all seemed super nice and I can't think of anyone hat would have done this. I though our community was getting along fine,then one person ruins it for everyone. Now I have to stand guard by my blue box every other week. I feel disconnected from my community now because I suspect EVERYONE...My eye is on the old lady across the street....
Stay tuned as I hone my detective skills!

So, as usual, I was reading the Goldstream Gazette and I came across some news about a teaching community garden at the Westshore Centre for Learning, just down the street from RRU. The teaching garden is educating children about small, food security gardens. Three schools: Belmont Secondary; Colwood Elementary; and Westshore Centre will be the ones involved in the growing and cultivating the garden. This should increase the networking and social capital between the schools and decrease and rivalry between them.
Schools, from what I remember, are always in competition with each other. I grew up in a tri- city type area and if my school had decided to start a garden, the other two schools would either have sabotaged our garden or built a bigger, better garden. There would be no collaboration liek there is between these three schools.
The focus is great: teaching young children about food security, something that should have been done a long time ago. The garden is calling for volunteers, yet this is the first I've heard of it. They should have engaged the community more fully by providing information to the people that live in it. The garden has mainly applied for outside grants to fund it, instead of asking the surrounding neighbourhoods for help.
If the Westshore Centre can do it, hopefully RRU will be next!!