Have you thanked your favorite city sanitation worker lately? Here’s your chance. This week is National Public Works Week - a time to recognize the tens of thousands of people that you take for granted everyday. The ones who build and maintain our infrastructure known as public works.

Started in 1960 by the APWA (American Public Works Association), National Public Works Week calls attention to the importance of public works workers and how they make our lives cleaner, healthier and more beautiful. What would our world be like without the water delivery, sanitation, sewage treatment, street repairs or landscaping? Dirty, unsafe, unsanitary and disgusting, that’s what.

So, this week try to say thanks to those who:

• Get the clean water to your faucet
• Take the trash away
• Install the stop signs in the right places
• Fill the potholes
• Keep the sewers from clogging up

For more information about National Public Works Week visit the APWA website.

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