MAKE HIS DAY EASTWOOD URGES VOLUNTEERISM.Byline: Andrea Cavanaugh Staff Writer BEVERLY HILLS Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. - Actor-director Clint Eastwood returned on Tuesday to a role he played nearly 20 years ago as he urged Americans to ``lend a hand'' to preserve and protect public lands. Eastwood briefly helped a group of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. fifth-graders sand picnic tables A picnic table (or sometimes a picnic bench) is a modified table with benches expressly for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors (picnicking). In the past, picnic tables were typically made of wood, but modern tables can be made out of anything from recycled plastic to at Franklin Canyon Franklin Canyon is located outside of Martinez, California in Contra Costa County. It is named for San Francisco pioneer Edward Franklin who came to California from England in 1849 for the California Gold Rush. Park in Beverly Hills before speaking on behalf of Take Pride in America Take Pride in America is a Department of the Interior partnership program that enables individuals, civic groups, corporations and others to volunteer in caring for the lands that we share. , a program that encourages volunteerism. ``I just want to encourage everyone to take care of the land, starting right outside your door,'' Eastwood said. ``You own over one-third of the land in this country. You deserve to take care of it.'' Eastwood, 73, is the director of several movies, including ``Mystic River'' and the Oscar-winning ``Unforgiven,'' and the star of films like ``Dirty Harry,'' ``The Outlaw Josey Wales'' and ``High Plains Drifter.'' He also is a longtime champion of the environment who served as Take Pride's spokesman in the 1980s. About 30 fifth-graders from Park View Center School in Simi Valley took sandpaper sandpaper, abrasive originally made by gluing grains of sand to heavy paper sheets. Today sandpaper is made primarily with quartz, aluminum oxide, or silicon carbide grains, and is graded according to the size of the grains. to the park's peeling picnic tables. The class won the statewide Jiminy Cricket Environmentality Challenge for designing a recycling and composting program at their school and for picking up more than 800 pounds of trash at Simi Valley's Corriganville Park. Although several of the children gathered around Eastwood to get an autograph, he didn't look familiar to 10-year-old Karynne Gross. ``About a quarter of the class knew who he was,'' she said. ``I've never heard of him.'' Andrea Cavanaugh, (805) 583-7602 andrea.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Clint Eastwood joins Park View Center School students Tuesday in refurbishing a picnic table at Franklin Canyon Park. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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