The July 2nd 2022, LBC Midtown Neighborhood Association Clean Up Pics

Thanks to Frank, Mono, 6th District City Council Field Deputy Jasmine (sorry forgot the last names) and all the neighbors that came out for our July Midtown Neighborhood Association clean up. We set up a kid zone, but didn't end up using it. Still like the idea. We passed out 500 flyers, so we had the dumpster filled within one hour. Next months will be at the same location. This is the clean up someone kept telling everyone that it wasn't happening. For a clean up that didn't occur, we filled that dumpster fast!

Those Tools Aren't Trash

Lots of Seating

Half Full by 8:30

There Was A Line

There Was An Announced Clean Up: Walnut Anaheim to 15th Street

There was an announced clean up in the MacArthur Park Neighborhood of Walnut from Anaheim to 15th Street. South of 15th, Walnut is usually very bad, especially by the apartments south of 14th Street. It took two days. But here are some before and after pictures. Next week we'll be getting 15th Street starting at Orange and get as close to Junipero as time will allow.

We also helped support the AOC7 clean up on Saturday. It was impressive, because earlier, Mary said she was worried that everybody else seemed to have something to do that day. Despite that, look at the turn out below. Am incredible turn out left places that we intended to clean the next day so immaculate, we had to go somewhere else and clean our own neighborhood instead.

The Incredible Turn out for the Neighborhood Clean Up This Weekend

BBQ April 16th, 2016: 3pm - 6pm in MacAthur Park

Clean Up: This Saturday Walnut and Anaheim: Headed North to PCH 10am

First Clean Up of 2015: Gundry PCH to 15th Done

This morning we had our first neighborhood clean up of 2016 along Gun dry from PCH to 15th is finished. I will say Gundry was very well kept. At least one alleyway looked very well maintained. We will get 15th to Anaheim soon and be partnering with Wrigley to clean Chestnut from 23rd heading towards Willow tomorrow at 8am.

Also, don't forget the City Wide Breakfast will be held at 1744 Gaviota, on 02/20/2016. All the neighborhood is invited. #SupportJosephine

Clean Up This Saturday 12/12/2015: 8am. 1744 Gaviota

There will be a clean up this Saturday at 1744 Gaviota. A LARGE DUMPSTER will be available, so you can get rid of items too large for regular pick up. The street tackled will be Gaviota from PCH to 15th. Clean up starts at 8am. Food and water will be provided.

MacArthur Park Neighborhood Clean Up 11/21/2015: 10am

MacArthur Park Neighborhood clean up this Saturday 10am: Starting at 14th & Cherry heading down 14th towards Orange.

There Was AOC7 Clean Up This Weekend on 11th Street

This Saturday we didn't clean up MacArthur Park so we could help the AOC7 in their monthly neighborhood clean up. That clean up got 11th, Cerritos, Licoln Elementary, Norman Court and probably two additional tons of trash. Thanks to the AOC7 and all the neighbors who came out to support the clean up. It was a great event that probably took at least three dumpsters worth of trash off the street. 

I still intend to get Ester, Werner and the remainder of Orange this week. Next Saturday, there will also be a clean up on Sherman and 16th street at 8am..

Junipero Clean Up: Anaheim to 14th Street

There was a small announced clean up of Junipero from Anaheim to 14th Street. The picture to the side shows what was removed, and a few businesses we helped tidy up for. 

I might get the rest of Junipero this week, but I am not promising. Overall, Junipero south of 14th was already pretty clean, except for an abandoned business just north of an alleyway that has become overrun with old leaves. 

Normally, clean ups take place on Saturday at 10am. This one was Sunday at 8am to allow me to volunteer at CERT's Ready Long Beach in Heartwell Park. Next week we will be getting 17th street, and possibly we will be getting it all the way into the Poly District on the other side of Alamitos as a preemptive Neighborhood Expansion before the crime that appears to be clustering there gets out of hand.

Volunteers for clean ups are always welcome. The clean up schedule is here.

Walnut Street Clean Up: 09/12/2015 10am

This cleanup will be starting from the south side of the intersection, moving south towards Anaheim this time. Volunteers are always welcome. All clean up materials will be provided. The clean up schedule is here: 

http://macarthurparklbc.blogspot.com/p/events.html

St. Louis/ Dawson Clean: 14th to Anaheim St

There was an announced clean up of St. Louis Street that followed 14th Street to Anaheim. While originally we intended to get St. Louis, Dawson and Raymond, in the end it was just a little too hot to get all three. We were able to get Dawson from 14th to Anaheim and 14th Street again from St. Louis to Dawson.

Thanks to the neighbors who gave me the bottled water.  Thanks to the volunteers that helped make this cleaning go a little quicker. Because both streets were reasonably clean we were able to get some nasty weeds out of the Anaheim Corridor.

We may finish and get Raymond tomorrow; that kind of depends how hot it gets. We originally planned to get 15th Street, that will probably have to wait until a later weekend.

Update 08/31/2015: Raymond has been cleaned. It helped that the temperature was only 74 degrees today and the humidity was only 63%. That sounds terrible but last night the humidity was 83% and the temperature was 78.

11th Street Clean Up: Walnut to Mahanna

There was an unannounced clean up of 11th Street from Walnut to Mahanna to support our partners in the AOC7. While this clean up was originally intended to go to Alamitos, we ran out of room in the trash bag, and it was getting a little hot. The rest of 11th, from Mahanna to Alamitos will be tackled tomorrow.

The clean up also touched some areas of Hoffman relatively close to 11th Street.

This is part of this week's Neighborhood Expansion which so far has resulted in 19 additional Go Long Beach Requests and several Community Walks through the areas that have seen an increase in reported crime  The MacArthur Park Neighborhood will be doing this often when something serious happens in a neighborhood outside its boundaries.

Update 08/27/2015: So our goal was to get to Alamitos today. Unfortunately, by the time we got to Cerritos we had another 32 gallons of trash, so we didn't quite make it there today. However, being the stubborn people that we are we will try again tomorrow at 9am to get that last little stretch of the neighborhood bordering AOC7 a little cleaner by noon. This was our 41st clean up this year.

By the way,whoever issued the heat warning for today, understated how hot it would be. At least Arizona was a dry heat.

Break Down Of Tonight's Community Meeting On Starting Neighborhood Watches

There was an hour and a half meeting today at the Mark Twain Library centered on starting a neighborhood watch. Community watches are started when a small group of neighbors get together. One of those members attends there Division Leadership Forums, which take place bimonthly, and passes on what they learn to other community members within their watch. The next Leadership Forum is Wednesday 08/26/2015 and the topic will be gangs.

The questions at the meeting about starting meetings centered around what to do when neighbors do not get along and how to handle communication difficulties when neighbors speak different languages. First remember sometimes reaching out to your neighbors is how these issues are best dealt with. And if your common ground includes a safer neighborhood, there's a good chance that some of those differences will seem less important in the long run. When trying to meet your neighbors for the first time, it's recommended to start small like reaching out to your own apartment complex first, before reaching out to a greater network of neighbors. 

Neighborhoods can use events like National Night Out as an opportunity to meet more neighbors. National Night Out is a community-police awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of August. Texas and Florida have the option to use the alternate date of the first Tuesday in October to avoid hot weather While National Night Out has passed this year, those speaking at the meeting remind us it's really easy to hold a free event, like the potlucks that often take place in Wrigley, and use that as an opportunity to say hello to the people living next door.

What do you do if you and your neighbors don't speak the same language?

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ឧទ្យាន បិទ នៅពេលព្រលប

Do you know what this says? If Google Translator is correct, it's "The park closes at dusk," in Khmer. It was correctly pointed out at the meeting because all the signs in MacArthur Park are exclusively in English a good portion of MacArthur Park/ Whittier residents would not know the park's closing time. In other words, be sensitive to the fact that language barriers may prevent others from having the same information you do, especially when reaching out to your neighbors.

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On a more general level, the attending police did remind everyone that the West Division is the largest division in Long Beach with 225 officers assigned to the area. There are four resource officers that can handle more long term problems such as nuisance buildings. Additionally, there are two Quality of Life officers who spend a great deal of time helping the neighborhood homeless residents to get back on their feet. For anyone west of Cherry and South of the 405 you would get a hold of one of those resource officers by emailing LBPBWest@LongBeach.Gov. Since part of this neighborhood, as defined by NextDoor is east of Cherry, you would simply change the word "West" in that email address to east and then send the same mail.

Spaulding Clean Up: Junipero to St Louis Done

Special thanks to Azul and the Orange County Credit Union for sending help on today's clean up. It covered Spaulding Street from Junipero to St Louis and the Spaulding Court Alley just south of it.

There will be no clean up next Saturday as I will be enrolled on the city's Certified Emergency Response Training program. Based on all the black out, it looks like we may need it.

There is another small section of the alley we'll get in an unannounced clean up, just for the sake of being thorough.

64 gallons of trash removed from Spaulding St.

 

Clean Up: Saturday 08/01/2015: 10am: Spaulding and Junipero

Announced Clean Up Orange Anaheim to 15th Finished

There was an announced clean up of Orange Street from Anaheim to 15th. just shy of Rosa Park's Park yesterday. The street was significantly cleaner than the first time it was hit, especially around the vacant lot at Werner and Orange. The one place that is still in need of some TLC, is next to the Dollar Tree at 15th Street.

It was good to meet four neighbors on Orange, all of whom expressed an interest in helping build a nicer community. Though to be fair, one resident called that Saturday a little hot and humid to be picking up trash. Our next clean up will be on Saturday August 1st. This is a special clean up in that it will be focused on MacArthur Park to prepare it for the Night Market the next day.

Joint AOC7/ MacArthur Park Clean Up Tomorrow 07/18/2015 8:30am

Unannounced Clean Up: Warner Anahiem to 15th Done

No pictures, but as of today, every street around the park has been cleaned before our joint clean up effort this Saturday. Thanks in advance to the AOC7 for giving our neighbors the opportunity to get rid of some of the things that don't normally fit in the regular trash containers.

Update: Rose is clean from 14th to PCH too. Meant to get 14th to Anaheim, but am a little tired.

14th Street Clean Up: Orange to Cherry Done

About 96 Gallons of trash was removed from 14th Street this morning

About 96 gallons of trash was removed from 14th Street in preparation for our joint clean up around MacArthur Park this Saturday. We're getting the smaller things around the park as much as possible before Saturday, so there will be more room for the big ticket items like mattresses and furniture in the dumpster. Again, we will have a dumpster in case any MacArthur Park needs to get rid of larger furniture too large for the average trash can. See the flyer below for details. 

By the way, so far the follow streets have been cleared of litter at least once: Peterson, Gundry, 14th, 17th, Sherman and Stanton. Volunteers are welcome and would be greatly appreciated for the joint clean up this Saturday.

Joint AOC7/ MacArthur Park Clean Up This Sat. 07/18/2015: 8:30am

Joint AOC7/ MacArthur Park Clean Up 07/18/15 8:30am - Noon