Photos from Service Day Clean Up

Just wanted to post some photos from the Service Day clean up. We had such a good turn out, and we appreciate everybody who came out!

Some of our volunteers signing in:


John before my first spanish television interview


John after his first spanish language interview


A few of our younger volunteers:


Some project runway fans may recognize Sweet P from Project Runway in the photo below:


A few of our dedicated volunteers:

Echo Park Clean Up on January 31!

To carry on the momentum of our last great event, we are going to pick up right where we left off and do a clean up in Echo Park along Sunset Blvd on Saturday, January 31st. We hope that all of you can make it and we are looking forward to a great clean up day!

The link to the USA Service site is here

Please sign up through the site just so we know how many people are going to be able to make it and please bring your friends!

Did you know The Buffalo News covers our events? Neither did we

Just came across this story earlier today from the Buffalo News, here's to everybody's work!

"In the hip Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles dozens of residents fanned out along Sunset Boulevard, picking its well-littered gutters and sidewalks clean of trash.

'We've never done this before,' said Helen Nasillski, a ballet instructor who was out collecting trash with her husband and two children. 'There's a different feeling in the air these couple of days.'"

Hey, it seems that Silver Lake is hip! Finally, we feel culturally relevant. Anyway, thank you Helen for coming out and there's a story about you in Buffalo!

Trash Tip of the Day #1

So I heard this trash tip from a girl in my spinning class, and I wanted to pass it along:

Whenever she takes her dog out for a walk and a poop (this is a trash website, I can say "poop"), she takes a larger plastic bag and fills it with all of the trash that she sees along her walk. Not only is she not leaving her dog poop on the sidewalk, she is leaving it cleaner than she found it!

Success!

Today we had 250 people come out to our event for Barack Obama's National Day of Service! We cleaned from Sunset and Fountain, down to Echo Park. We aren't sure if Silver Lake has ever been so clean...

We even had two news stations come out. Below is the article from ABC News....

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6613418

Thank you to everyone who came out to clean today. We really appreciate your enthusiasm and dedication. Photos coming soon!

Day of Service Clean Up!

Join the LA Neighborhood Clean Up Project for a Day of Service clean up in Silver Lake on Monday, January 19th. Details to come soon, but check out our posting here and sign up or e-mail us for details...

Flea Thinks We Are Cool, You Should Too!

One of the many people that signed our petition for more trash cans in Silver Lake during our Sunday clean up was Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was cool enough to take a picture with a couple of our members after helping us out!