FURY OVER FLY- TIPPING OUTSIDE CHURCH
Rubbish prevented foodbank parcels being delivered
ROLLS of carpet and l i noleum have been dumped outside the door of a South Side church, preventing it from delivering vital foodbank parcels.
Members of Pollok Baptist Church have been left “disheartened” after being targeted by heartless yobs.
The Haughburn Road kirk supports around 80 families in need in the local area but its minister believes someone outside the community is to blame.
Reverend Dave Murray said: “It’s really disheartening. We are trying our best to do this work and this puts us back because the path is now blocked to get the deliveries out.
“Of the six or seven churches in the area, I believe we are the only ones who are doing something like this at the moment, and so when something difficult.
“I don’t believe that it is someone from the local area as the community here is really great at supporting us.
“It’s really easy to just drive up the path, so I think it has possibly been a chancer who has dumped it and went home.”
Pollok Baptist Church has been supplying foodbank donation to those in need while in lockdown, teaming up with community group G53Together to double the number of those getting support from 40 families to around 80.
As previously reported, the church was also recently vandalised while the team put together food parcels and toybank donations in December.
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“I don’t think that we are being targeted. The reason I don’t think it’s someone in the local area is because people know the work that we are doing and I don’t believe that a community like Pollok would do something like this.
“We also have the issue of the virus and touching things that we don’t know where they have come from.
“We don’t know who has dumped these and in all honesty we don’t want to start lifting rolls of carpet and lino that has come from anyone’s home and picking up the virus. Unfortunately, this is nothing new, I see things like this all the time and it comes with the job but it is a set back for us which is frustrating.
“I just hope that people have a little more consideration when doing things like this.”
David McDonald, a local councillor in the area, said: “This latest act of fly- tipping is really frustrating and hugely disrespectful. Pollok Baptist Church has helped feed and care for our community and those out in need throughout the current crisis. They deserve all our thanks and our respect.
“There’s no excuse for this, our civic recycling centres are open and household are make arrangements for a bulk uplift. Our frontline cleansing staff have been working flat out during the pandemic and illegal dumping like this puts added putting pressure on them.
“Whoever is responsible for this ignorant act, will be tracked down. I’ve asked for local CCTV to be checked to help identify the selfish idiots involved. We should never accept illegal dumping to go unchallenged and of anyone has any information on those responsible I hope they pass it on to the church.”