It seems like every time Monday rolls around there’s another week celebrating something.
For just May, we found information about weeks dedicated to nurses, teachers and school staff, nursing homes, police and craft beer. They’re celebrated across the country with events and things like gifts and food.
This upcoming week is National Public Works Week, hosted by The American Public Works Association to promote the importance of public works services.
The theme this year is “The Power of Public Works” and it celebrates the impact of the many facets public works provides to determine a community’s quality of life. Really, a city’s public works staff performs services that are rather important to our way of life. In the city of Concord, public works services are performed by Concord General Services and include trash and recycling collection, providing clean drinking water, processing wastewater to maintain public health and the quality of the Merrimack River, public property maintenance, servicing city equipment and vehicles, snow plowing, and maintaining roads and city water systems.
Now you see why Public Works Week is so important – they do a lot of stuff that we all undoubtedly take for granted.
The Mayor, Jim Bouley, even signed a proclamation to declare May 20-26 as this year’s Public Works Week for Concord.
Now this is really late notice (sorry, we just found out about it last week after the paper was already out), but if you happen to read this first thing, you’ll want to hustle over to Memorial Field for the 2nd annual Concord Public Works Celebration on Tuesday (today) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
It’s a free event that will include live demonstrations, Touch-A-Truck, Battle of the Backhoe, games, music by Nazzy Entertainment DJs and much, much more. Concord General Services’ new mascot, Public Works Pup, will be there along with some of the dedicated public works employees.
And if you didn’t see this in time, we’ll try to do better next year.
Visit concordnh.gov/generalservices for more information about National Public Works Week and Concord’s public works department.
Insider staff
