We're Hosting Our Third Clean Up

Save the date: This Saturday: 04/01/2017 from 8am to 12pm. We're providing everyone in the Midtown Area a dumpster to rid themselves of any large trash that will not fit in the trash cans. Look for it at 15th and Gundry. See the attached flyer for more details. We'll be cleaning up Gundry. And a little later that day, Litter Free Long Beach will stop by to pick up any e-waste. That's tires and those things with a cord you have no idea what to do with. This service is provided free by the Neighborhood Service Center. If you'd like to host future clean ups please PM me. The more hosts with have in the Midtown area [PCH to Anaheim/ Cherry to Alamitos] the more often we can do this. We will be providing generous refreshments to all the volunteers.

 

Neighborhood Clean Up 10/10/2015: 9pm

This Saturday, another MacArthur Park Neighborhood resident is hosting a clean up. This one is taking place in the eastern end of the neighborhood as defined by Next Door. A dumpster will be available and high school service hours are available for this one. See the flyer for more details.

15th Street: Cherry to Junipero is Clean

15th Street from Junipero to Cherry is clean. This is the first time we cleaned 15th street east of Cherry. We will be getting Stanley and Sherman soon. Stanley and Sherman may take a little longer as they are both somewhat wider than the average residential street in the MacArthur Park neighborhood.

Remember the second, re-visioning meeting for Cambodia Town is today at 12pm at Mark Twain Library.

This Saturday's cleanup will be on Sunday, not interfere with the Literacy Fair at MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park clean ups are normally Saturday at 10am. This week, it;s being moved one day to allow everyone to support the AOC7's Literacy Fair at MacArthur Park.

 Sunday's clean up will be: Walnut and PCH heading south, starting promptly at 10am. Check out the AOC7's flyer for details on the literacy fair this Saturday.

Quick Safety Update: Tagging on Gaviota by Chittick Field

Three incidents of vandalism were reported yesterday at 7:24am on Gaviota just north of PCH. Please keep an eye open around Chittick Field, as well as the other three neighborhood parks: MacArthur and Rosa Parks, for tagging and or destruction of property. Other than the continued tagging at 1732 15th street, this week has been quiet so far.

Update: 05/13/2015: Additional tagging on 15th and Walnut last night, buildings and alleys. Note most of the tagging is taking place on streets like Walnut or 15th, and that is a very predictable and reliable prevention pattern to be on the look out for.

Gardenia Clean Up PCH to 14th Finished

Today there was an announced clean up of Gardenia Street from PCH to 14th. Because I had more volunteers we were able to get up a lot of the leaves lining 17th street. The Go Long Beach App was used to schedule pick ups for the bigger items that could not be fitted into the cans.

The Results: Litter that was removed from Gardenia today

Thank you to all the volunteers that came out. Also it was nice to meet the members of WESCA and the city workers involved with Litter Free Long Beach at the earlier clean up on Orizaba.

There will be no street cleaning next Saturday as I will be in Arizona for two days. We will resume at 10am on 05/08/2015 where this started about a month ago at 15th and Cherry. There is a chance there may be some city involvement in the future, which will hopefully give us a little more room than the four rolling trash cans.

I don't really have any before and after pictures because honestly Gardenia wasn't that bad.

Because What Helps Your Neighbors Helps You

The MacArthur Park Neighborhood will be sending a little help this way before their own clean up begins at PCH and Gardenia at 10am.