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

Wrigley Clean Up Chestnut 23rd to Burrnett: Neighborhood Expansion

Post Shared from Josephine A Villaseñor's:  Wrigley Community Watch Page: We did a small cleaned on Chestnut Ave between 23rd Street and Burnett. Picked up 32 gallons of Trash most of it was Cigarette ends, Business Cards, Broken Glass and some odd ends of Trash, even an used Condom! Eww, lol  Lots of people attended, go Thankful, people passing by gave us thumbs up, said Thank you, good job but all in all it was a good day. Cleaned up the broken glass so no one gets a flat tire. We will pick another part of the Community to Clean up. Wrigley Community Watch Leader Josie MacArthur Park Community Watch and Association Leader Shayne Michael — feeling cleaned up part of Wrigley Community at 6th District Vote for Josephine, Long Beach, CA.

 #SupportJosephine

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

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.

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

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.

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

Unannounced Clean Up Gardenia PCH to Anahiem

There was an unannounced clean up of Gardenia from PCH to 14th street. Gardenia is never that bad. At least one young kid asked me on the clean up, "Why do you have to do this?" I answered, "I don't have to; I chose to."

The second picture is of one of two damaged storm drains at PCH and Anaheim. I wonder if I took an inventory of all the damaged storm drains in our neighborhood, how many I would find that need to be fixed, especially by major intersections like PCH or Anaheim.

Sherman Clean Up 15th to PCH Finished

There was an announced clean up of 15th street today. And there were some volunteers, so things went a little faster. We'd like to express our appreciation to Frank, a resident since February who helped for almost an hour and a half with the worst side of Sherman Street. For those who are not familiar with the layout of Sherman, one side is very wide with diagonal parking spaces so the help was very much appreciated.

With some help, sherman was clean in just under 3 hours.

In all about 96 gallons of trash was removed. Next week, at 10am on Saturday, we will round out our three week focus on the east end of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood when we tackle cleaning Stanton Street from 15th all the way to PCH. Actually, Stanton doesn't go all the way to PCH, so we will be tackling Stanton from 15th, just shy of PCH. Everyone in the neighborhood is welcome to join in. Everything you need to participate will be provided.

This is the beginning of Sherman Street at 15th

Remember you can visit the page where we list clean ups to see where we will be each week and join in. Most clean ups will begin at 10am.

Alley Way Beautification Continues

Today continued the alley way beautification project next to the carnercia on 15th and Gaviota. Above you can can see some before and after pictures that show a huge difference. This project will continue until we have cleaned this alley all the way to 14th street. This will not be an easy project to finish, from here the weeds get really bad.

Walnut Ave Clean From PCH to Anaheim

Okay, this clean up took a little longer than I had hoped, but Walnut Ave is clean again from PCH to Anaheim Street. The picture above shows how much trash was taken off the street this morning. The center shows how much trash can be left behind by a single vendor. Every flyer you see above is from the LA Gaviota Market on Anaheim and Gaviota. And that doesn't even include their flyers that came from south of 14th street.

When you multiply that by how many streets are in our neighborhood, you can clearly see how one market can make a huge difference, positive or negative. So far I have asked every business with an email address to take the city's anti litter pledge.

I am again asking every business in the MacArthur Park Neighborhood to follow this link, and agree to keep Long Beach and their neighborhood clean.

There were some pleasant surprises in today's clean up. Several street signs reported as damaged or tagged were fixed. The most important was the school sign next to Whittier Elementary that had the residue of gang tagging and looked like it was from a Mad Max film. Both that sign and a crooked and tagged one way sign were fixed almost as soon as they were reported.

One of the reasons Walnut takes so long is the street is well taken care of north of 14th street. Then after 14th street, specifically next to some of the larger apartments, it starts to look like the above before and after section. That little stretch of land, takes more than an hour to clean that thoroughly.

Next week, we will be cleaning 17th street from Orange to Gardenia on 05/23/2015. The meeting spot will be 17th and Orange at 10am. The clean up schedule is listed here.

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.

Alleyway Beautification: Phase One

Sundays will begin the Alleyway Beautification Project. Today, we removed a lot of weeds from this alley nearest the carnceria on 1732 15th street. Each Sunday we will remove a little more. After that, we'll do something really impressive.