Pagano Park

El Bolson is a beautiful town, but it has the potential to be even better, to improve some of its biggest attractions. One of it is “Plaza Pagano” (Pagano Park). You might be a local, a tourist or maybe you don’t even know this place, but if you are planning to visit El Bolson, you already have, or you live here, what’s happening with this park is an issue that should concern you as well. This place is been extremely mistreated by everyone. The local raft market (worth visiting) sells food besides rafts, and its residues are simply thrown to the floor around the square, and because it has a pool in the middle, all of it goes there. This is not the only way that this place gets dirty, during the week you can see all kinds of trash just floating there. Of course this pool is almost never cleaned and the garbage accumulates in it. I believe that no one throws trash in their houses living room, so why should it be done in your town? Or worse, someone else’s town. Local authorities have to take conscious of this problem and do something about it, like adding more dust bins around the park, or hiring more employers to clean the mess that is left every week, because is clear that what is done it’s not enough. But beyond the authorities, us, the locals must do something too, everything from simple actions like throwing our garbage on the dust bins, to something bigger, like organizing a cleanup were everyone can participate. Those are the ideas that I could come up with, but believe that if more people take interest in this issue we will be able to create a plan to maintain this park in excellent conditions.

Emilia Sirvent