Pat Wilkinson, the Hilton resident behind Hilton's One Hour Warriors said, 'I kept seeing negative posts in the HRA page; and thought we needed to do something positive for our Village which was slowly disappearing under long grass and overhanging trees. The overgrown pathways left pedestrians no choice but to walk in the road. Graffiti has recently been found at Worlds View Lookout which offered a general impression of neglect to tourists visiting this attraction.
The idea is that each member of the community should dedicate one hour a week to a part of Hilton that needed cleaning up, whether it be mowing the verges, cleaning up flower beds or picking up litter.
The World's View Conservancy was spurred to take action at the Lookout point and this focus became the inaugural project for One Hour Warriors in Hilton.
We published a Facebook group where we posed the question:"Do you want to be involved?"
Within 12 hours we had 80 people join the "One Hour Warriors" Facebook group.
Additionally, people have committed to do their own projects in Hilton Gardens, Panorama Road, Vlei Road and on the corner of Cedara Road and Hilton Avenue, all spurred on by this Warrior challenge.
Group membership on Facebook is up to 109 after two weeks. Members are trying to motivate their neighbours to help with projects identified where they live. Less active people can help in ANY way they feel comfortable picking up litter, sweeping...or they can "loan" their gardeners to a project for a day.'
Reports have been received stating that a similar initiative has been very successful in Winterton, which is encouraging. To find out about upcoming Hilton Community - One Hour Warrior projects in Hilton you can follow this initiative on Facebook.
Pictured here Colin Scott successfully tackled the unsightly graffiti at the Lookout Point, Worlds View.