Earth Day Weekend Clean Up in Echo Park on April 25th!

In celebration of Earth Day, we are going to clean up Echo Park on Sunday, April 25th at 10am. We will be meeting at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park Bvld., in the Walgreens parking lot. Bring yourself, significant others, friends, pets, anybody willing to lend a helping hand!!! As always, donuts and supplies will be provided.

For a map of where to meet, click here: Map

We hope to see you there!

April 25 Echo Park Wrap Up!

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everybody who came out to lend a hand to our Echo Park clean up this past Saturday. It was a great event and we got fantastic whether. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces along with a number of new ones! We are glad that we have developed such a great group of people in Echo Park and we hope that some of you will join us at other events around town!

Yeah, we are putting the cutest picture first, kids helping always makes for the best pictures!


John with George from the city...he looks very happy about the shovels...very happy:



Two of our great returning volunteers, seriously Tommy we will get you a t-shirt!


Chris and Holly showing off the immense size of the city trash bags:


John is pointing at something here...not really sure what!:


Here is a picture of our unofficial mascot "Salsa"...why is that his name? "Because people like to say Salsa"...:

A picture of the trash gathered in the back of the city truck...thanks George!:

Echo Park Earth Day Clean Up April 25!

Join the LA Neighborhood Clean Up Project at 10 AM on April 25 in Echo Park for a (post) Earth Day clean up!!! We know Earth Day is actually April 22, but we thought we would make it easier on everybody to take the time to show up. We are meeting at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park Blvd, in the Walgreens parking lot. As always, we will provide donuts from Tang's!

You can sign up on our USA Service website: http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4rxyg

Check it out and sign up!

As always, you can also follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LANCUP

Follow up on Echo Park Clean Up

We just wanted to thank everybody who came out to the Echo Park clean up on January 31st, we had a great group of volunteers and could not have had a successful day without all of your efforts!!!!

Below are some pictures from our clean up, though, the battery on our camera died, so sorry for having a limited amount of pictures!!!


Two of our younger volunteers drawing people toward our event!:

Jose Sigala, of the Echo Park and Elysian Park Neighborhood Council, speaking before the clean up:


Andrea, giving out nametags (she loves, loves nametags):


The tools provided by the city, much appreciated:


Food provided by the Neighborhood Council, just as appreciated!!!!:

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!