The Queens Park Dog Park ROLL OF HONOUR

Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the many people and their dogs for kindly having donated plastic poo bags and/or money to purchase same. The dogs visiting Queens Park, their owners and the Park users in general are indebted to your valiant acts of generosity!

(If you have made a donation and have yet to be acknowleded, or wish to donate poo bags, please contact the parkzombie, who maintains this list.)

2014

October: 

Owner of Loki kindly donated R100

September

Gunnar and Moira kindly donated 2x bags

2013

Owner of Lilly-Rose

Gunnar and Moira, owners of Alli and Will (and other dogs who must be recorded) have made substantial donations

Primary acknowledgement is made to Delilah, owner of Maximus, who started the poo bag collection scheme in the first place. She arranged for the delivery of scores of plastic bag rolls!

Special mention also goes to those brave people who selflessly collect other people's dog's poo! This unlovely task is sometimes necessary.

We also acknowledge the many kind anonymous folk who, over the years, have left spare plastic bags in the plastic bag dispenser in the Dog Park.

QPWEB Donating Plastic Poo Bags

Queens Park Dog Park has many visitors and their dogs. The inevitable dog poo accumulates if it isn't collected and thrown into the red Dog Poo bins on the perimeter of the Dog Park.

The plastic bags for the above purpose are donated by kind dog owners, and donations (either in cash or in kind) are gratefully received. Their names (and / or those of their dogs) liveth for ever more on the prestigious Roll of Honour page.

How can I make a donation?

Several options:

1. Purchase a plastic bag roll (or rolls) from one of the plastic bag outlets (see below) and deliver it to to the house with the green palisade fence in Queens Park Avenue, just north of the Play Park gate (no. 44), or give it to the man who locks the Dog Park gate at nightfall.
    
2. Make a cash donation to the man who locks the gate, who will purchase the equivalent value of plastic bag rolls for you. Receipts are kept for all cash donations and will be delivered on request.
    
3. If you have any spare (thin) plastic bags loose (such as those used to wrap milk sachets at supermarkets), stuff them into the Plastic Bag DIspenser in the Dog Park.

If you make a donation, please supply your and / or your dog's name, that these might be acknowledged on the Roll of Honour. Spare plastic bag rolls are stored by the parkzombie and deployed to the bag dispenser in the Dog Park when the old one has been used up.

Where can I buy Plastic Bags?

A convenient nearby outlet is at Plastipak, who are in the old Salt River Post Office building at 60 Salt River Road in Salt River.
Other suppliers will be added as they become known

Queens Park Dog Park

Here will be posted links issues about the Queens Park Dog Park

QPWEB Tales From The Car Park 1

When the Queens Park Dog Park was designed, after the demolition of the old Queens Park Swimming Pool, provision was made for a new Car Park. It is situated in The Avenue, between the Queens Park Dog Park and the High School. It's quite a deep parking area, providing convenient daytime parking for visitors to all sections of Queens Park as well as the High School.

However, it's quite a lonely, dark area at night, in spite of the floodlight on a tall pole that lights up the Dog Park on the south-western corner. Various people have in the past decided to sit in their cars there after dark. This is not very sensible, considering how lonely a place it is.

One local resident took on the task of warning these people of the dangers of hijacking. Some took the advice to heart and drove off elsewhere. Others were there for less reputable purposes and preferred to stay. Until their car's numberplates were recorded with a flash on the resident's camera, with the parting advice that they could find these shots on Facebook.

A resident has installed a CCTV camera that overlooks the area, and is to be congratulated for this. Nobody wants dodgy goings-on in a car park right next to a High School.

Now the only tjorries that park in that car park after dark are (mostly) SAP and security company vehicles.

QPWEB The Hooker's Alley Story

A few months after the Queens Park Dog Park had been opened, it was noticed one weekend that some rather pretty young ladies were sitting on the benches there at all hours of the day. They didn't have any dogs with them, and there was a "sweet disorder in the dress" that indicated perhaps they might be sitting there more for business than recreational purposes. (Or perhaps both, combined!).

More intriguing was the young, well-dressed Angolan gentlemen who was parked in the Car Park between the Dog Park and the High School in The Avenue. His beat-up old Chev had no numberplates or license disk, and there were a few more ladies sitting in his car while he made and took numerous calls on his smartphone. In the evenings, ladies of uncertain intent started loitering in the car park itself. It's a quiet area after dark.

Then the penny dropped. There is a narrow sunken alleyway on the northern edge of the Dog Park, behind some of the houses backing onto the Dog Park. The access gate that had been installed there when the palisade fence was put up - was unlocked. Three guesses where business was being transacted!

A call to the SAP was made, and they came to monitor the situation, but the thick-skinned Angolan continued to visit there. He was probably no stranger to controversy.

Without further ado, a solid chain and padlock were installed on that gate by a resident. Copies of the key were given to selected residents. City Council also installed a massive stone there to prevent the gate from being opened. Problem solved - the Angolan, his Chev and retinue of young ladies disappeared.

Which all goes to show how crime and degradation of our neighbourhood can be solved by a simple change to the environment. (Conversely, how by doing nothing, a tangible problem for the community could have developed...) And the alleyway acquired an interesting name!

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