Volunteers Spruce Up Belmont Ferry Stop
[Updated] Over 30 volunteers – including Warwick ferry riders, neighbors, representatives from the Warwick Parish Council and Warwick North East MP Curtis Dickinson — took action to improve the Belmont Ferry stop today.
Area resident Barry Brewer explained, “Belmont Newstead provided the paint and the community did the rest. In three hours the entire structure and retaining walls were scraped, under coated and painted. Special thanks to Christine Barnard, who works for Marine and Ports, for traveling all the way from St Georges to help out on her day off and to the five kids who helped paint.
“Over the last week we asked for volunteers with a posters on the ferry and we had a tremendous turnout. Visitors taking the ferry were impressed to see the community support and the freshly painted stop. It was a great community effort.”
Update: Photos of the brand new look, thanks to the volunteers
Thanks to good people.
Because we spend more time at a bus stop waiting for a bus I vote that we spruce up the bus stops instead.
Good idea.
You organize it and get the supplies and I’ll be there.
Let us know when.
Tremendous , well done to the volunteers. I hope it has not been looking really run down. I get the feeling that there is no maintenance by government. I don’t ride the ferry often, Again well done.
Thank you to every body involved. Excellent
Nice community effort by all.
Thank you from all of us.
Nice Job All of you. Was getting a little worried that the sculptor Scott King was going to turn the cherry hedge into some funky pc of Art. Place looks great!!
Well done and thank you.
As a resident of Belmont Heights, I offer my most sincere thanks to these community spirited folks who so generously gave of their time and energy. Particular thanks to Barry Brewer for organizing it. Generosity and team work at its best ! BRAVO !
Looks nice and fresh. Great job everyone!
The before and after pics show the great job done by the volunteers….Bermudaful! Remember when Bermuda visitors raved about how beautiful and clean the whole island was and took photos of everything to show their friends. The Belmont Ferry Stop will now show up people’s social media pages but a lot sites will not because they too need a spruce up.
Where’s the fawning , patronizing praise from Straightforward ? Oh , never mind .
Such an AWESOME effort on the part of everyone involved. I can’t believe the before and after photos. What a differences. Long overdue and a shame that it had to resort to volunteers to do all the work but kudos to everyone involved. Thank you!
Well done Warwick parish volunteers, you have set the pace. Now each parish can take on a project, similar to the clean up by the volunteers at Hands of Love. The awful eyesore has remained clean since the Warwick residents got rid of tons of trash. Not only was it an eyesore it was a health hazard. So let’s look to a new project as ‘many hands make light work’. I am sure other parishes need volunteer help.