Laurel Park Doggie Bag Station is Back!

Many in the neighborhood love strolling in Laurel Park.  We also enjoy sharing the park with our dogs.  Of course sharing the park with our four-legged friends comes the responsibility of sometimes needing to clean up after them.  In the past the city had installed a doggie waste station, however some were overzealous in the number of bags they would take from the station.  The city found it too much of a burden to constantly restock bags, so they removed the station and put up a no pet sign on the park.

Betsy Sublette, the Treasurer of the Laurel Park Neighborhood Association (and an avid park user/dog walker) found inspiration at Gillespie Park.  She saw a doggie station there, but rather than being supplied with city bought bags, neighbors were refilling the station with their own unused plastic bags.  Ah, thought Betsy, she could solve Laurel Park’s doggie waste problem and once again share the park with her furry family members.

As a joint effort between the LPNA and the City, a new doggie waste station has been installed in Laurel Park.  Cooperation between folks with extra bags and the dog walkers have once again opened the park to all.

So please bring any extra plastic bags you have to the station in Laurel Park so your neighbors with dogs can use them to clean up after their pets and keep the park a waste-free oasis for us all.