Santa Paula Beautiful! team captains were provided with a city dispatch phone number for supplies and city staff made regular rounds throughout the designated cleaning areas making sure that volunteers had all they needed, including bottled water.After four hours of labor, Santa Paula Beautiful! workers were rewarded with a barbecue at the Railroad Plaza Park and received T-shirts marking their participation in Santa Paula Beautiful!“It was a great success,” drawing close to 400 volunteers, said Public Works Director/City Engineer Cliff Finley.Saturday’s Santa Paula Beautiful! is just one of several focused city improvement events, including a citywide tree planting that occurred earlier this year.
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Almost 400 volunteers helped clean-up Santa Paula recently. Above left to right cleaning up the railroad corridor are: Sandy Easley, Janette Soltero and Kristin Easley. Photo by Brian D. Wilson |
Santa Paula Beautiful!
October 29, 2004
Almost 400 volunteers spruce up the city
Santa Paula News
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula TimesA commando of community volunteers armed with rakes, shovels, brooms, gloves and plastic bags took part in Saturday’s Santa Paula Beautiful! winning the battle of city cleanup.The second annual event that concentrated only on a general cleaning of the city took special notice of sprucing up Santa Paula’s gateways, although teams spread out to wherever cleanup duty called.There was plenty of cleanup to go around as the teams collected over 16 tons of trash!Residents were encouraged to organize their own teams to spruce up their neighborhoods while service clubs and organizations were charged with special assignments. Among the day’s duties were cleaning up litter in parks, disposing of trash and pulling up weeds along sidewalks, curbs and gutters as well as generally making Santa Paula Beautiful!The Santa Paula Rotary Club tackled cleaning the areas south of Main Street and north of Harvard Boulevard, between 8th Street and Palm Avenue. Club volunteers were also stationed between Palm Avenue and Craig Drive for cleanup efforts.On Palm Avenue near Highway 126, a vacant lot that had become an eyesore before being targeted for cleanup in the first Santa Paula Beautiful! was revisited, as was the empty Peck Road parcel around the corner from Kmart.With the city’s aggressive – and successful - campaign to eradicate graffiti, trash and weeds can become even more obvious, and a little help can go a long way in beautification efforts.
