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WATCH ABOVE: The ambassador of Spruce Grove says he’s been angry with the Home Depot for years, allurement them to apple-pie up the bits abreast their store. Kent Morrison has the latest.
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EDMONTON — Every year about this time, Spruce Grove Ambassador Stuart Houston gets on the buzz to the bounded Home Depot. Every spring, bits and bits from the abundance and its backyard awning the city acreage nearby.
This year, Houston had enough.
“I’m actually disgusted.”
Houston has been ambassador for seven years. He told Global News he’s spent hours on the buzz and in the abundance aggravating to get the breadth bankrupt up.
“It’s been an advancing action for me with Home Depot and I’ve had it.
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“This is no best adequate in the City of Spruce Grove. It’s no best an adequate business practice.”
The ambassador said plastic, agenda and added bits can be apparent year-round beyond the acreage abutting to the store, but it’s alike added apparent in the spring.
“We’ve spent millions of dollars on association beautification in the aftermost five years…When I accept to drive by this, it’s actual upsetting.”
He said the affair isn’t aloof an artful one – it’s additionally an ecology concern. Some of the bits ends up in the creek, which Houston says feeds Big Lake Basin and Sturgeon River in St. Albert.
“We charge Home Depot to be a acceptable accumulated aborigine and attending at their business convenance and not accept this ecology disaster.”
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Shortly afterwards the Global News aggregation accustomed at the location, agents started charwoman up.
Home Depot aggregation charwoman up the blend abutting to the store, April 16, 2015.
But Houston is acquisitive for a added abiding solution. The ambassador and board are looking the ‘Untidy and Unsightly Bylaw’ and beatific it aback to administering to “put some teeth into it.” Houston says it currently doesn’t go far enough.
No one at the Spruce Grove Home Depot agreed to be interviewed by Global News.
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A agent for the aggregation issued the afterward statement:
“We are attractive to adjust this bearings anon and to ensure that all apart bits from the neighbourhood will be bankrupt up as anon as possible,” said Emily DiCarlo, a accessible relations specialist with Home Depot Canada.
“As a concise solution, we will additionally analysis our decay auctioning action to ensure that any bits from the abundance is appropriately dealt with and will access the cardinal of our exoteric decay sweeps. In the longer-term, we plan to assignment with the City and the added surrounding retailers to ensure an able band-aid is put in place.
“We will abide to strive to be a abundant association neighbour,” said DiCarlo.
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