By Mark Squibb/October 21, 2022
It’s not all bad news, as was the case in Mount Pearl council chambers this week.
Council took a few moments to recognize a local boy who had taken it upon himself to do a good deed.
“From time to time, unfortunately, there’s a little bit of litter that gets built up in the city,” said Mayor Dave Aker. “But we were heart warmed and overwhelmed to hear that one of our, I’ll say in the zero to 10 demographic, took charge.”
That little boy was Michael Bradbury, who was invited to this week’s council meeting to receive a special certificate from the City.
Councillor Isabell Fry commended Michael for spending two hours of his own time picking up garbage in and around O’Donel High School last weekend.
“I couldn’t believe what I saw,” said Fry, who then asked Michael why we took it upon himself to do what he did.
“I did this because the last time I went to O’Donel, I saw a tonne of garbage, and it was so messy, “Michael told council. “So, since there was no school, I went over there to actually clean up this garbage. Two bags up garbage!”— said Michael, holding up his two fingers— “It was a lot of garbage.”
He was sure to tell council that the principal of O’Donel, Sheldon Marsh, came to visit him at St. Peter’s to give him some cool gifts for cleaning up the school grounds.
Bradbury was happy to come visit council chambers, and was particularly wowed that the meeting was being livestreamed.
“I cannot believe I’m on YouTube right now,” he said with a laugh. With a final ‘Bravo! Bravo!’ he exited the stage, but not before a few final commendations.
“What you did was a really big thing and when I saw what you did, it made me really happy to see that someone like you was brave enough and strong enough to go and pick up all that garbage,” said Fry. “I think what you did was really, really special.”
Along with his certificate, Bradbury received a round of applause from council.
