Lfd. City Cemetery Association seeking assistance

With the Holiday Season beginning in earnest during Thanksgiving, Littlefield families are gathering together for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For some, it is an opportunity to visit the final resting places of their loved ones. They will drive out to the City of Littlefield cemetery with the nice flowers they brought for the occasion, but as they drive down the access road, they notice a pile of boards, old plywood that bears the scars left from supporting a toilet in someone’s bathroom, pieces of sheet rock, and various remnants of materials that they would rather not speculate about.

The family members who live in Littlefield immediately feel angry and embarrassed, and the visitors not only share their reactions, but silently(or not) may thank their lucky stars that they do not live in Littlefield. Not only are such acts a detriment to the city’s environment and safety, they affect a community’s ability to be attractive to new people and businesses.

This is all because some people are too lazy and irresponsible, to consider their behavior affects people in the community, and even worse, do not care...not their problem. Now these people have problems.

Carl Enloe, the president of the Littlefield City Cemetery Association, is announcing a sizeable reward for information concerning anyone known to illegally dump trash within the city limits on property adjacent to the city’s cemeteries. Littlefield enforcement agencies are also aware of the activity.

Mr. Enloe would also encourage Littlefield residents and businesses to get involved in the care of the City of Littlefield cemetery. Membership in the cemetery association is $25.00 annually. The older cemetery contains grave cites that no longer have families to maintain their plots. People are needed to help out. Mr. Enloe may be contacted at 806-264-2257.

Youth and other organizations are encouraged to consider the cemetery as a community service project.

City Manager Mitch Grant and Code Enforcement Officer, Marshall King want to remind residents and contractors working in the city. Dumping within the city limits except in the city’s designated waste disposal site is a serious code violation and can carry substantial fines. Proper disposal is free of charge with the presentation of the resident’s water bill or driver’s license at the city’s disposal sites on E. 7 th Street and the city’s landfill facility. The codes are available on the City of Littlefield website https:// z2codes.franklinlegal.net/ franklin/Z2Browser2.html? showset=littlefieldset.

For more information, contact City Hall at 806-385-9202 and ask for the Code Enforcement Officer.