TAGGERS' LAMENT: VOLUNTEERS TO WHITEWASH GLENDALE'S GRAFFITI.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer GLENDALE -- They'll head out with buckets and paint and come back later to party -- all in a day's work (Naut.) the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. See also: Day for the hundreds of volunteers painting out graffiti and cleaning up Glendale. Saturday's event is part of a nationwide cleanup campaign organized by the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Keep America Beautiful Keep America Beautiful is an environmental organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with over 560 affiliate organizations (similar to local chapters) and more than 15,000 participating communities in their signature . Organizers in Glendale expect 600-800 volunteers to participate. Volunteers will meet by Glendale police headquarters and eat breakfast before getting to work. Two hundred participants will drive over to the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. to remove graffiti. Other volunteers will fan out with buckets, paint and tongs tongs long-handled, about 3 feet, shaped like pincers with knobs on the ends of the grasping blades. Applied by standing behind the subject in a confined space and closing the jaws to grasp the animal's head just below the ears. , cleaning up vacant lots, streets, pedestrian tunnels and a bridge. After a couple hours of working, volunteers will trickle back to the front of police headquarters building to mingle and listen to a performance from the Glendale High School Glendale High School can refer to:
``It gets the community involved in a very worthwhile project, and that's to clean up the neighborhoods of graffiti and trash,'' City Councilman Ara Najarian said. ``And at the same time I think it impresses a sense of city pride on the kids, the young children who are participating, not to get involved in any activities that are destructive or vandalizing the city,'' he said. ``The Great American Cleanup'' is a nationwide campaign in its 21st year, running from March 1 to May 31. Last year, volunteers nationwide collected 208 million pounds of litter while park rangers A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas, as well as other natural resources and protected cultural resources. power-washed Mount Rushmore for the first time since 1941, said Gail Cunningham, vice president of Keep America Beautiful. This year's campaign will have 30,000 events nationwide. ``It's like a patchwork quilt, when you think of all the things that happen across the country,'' Cunningham said. Glendale's event is organized by the city's Neighborhood Services division and the Committee for a Clean and Beautiful Glendale, in conjunction with Keep America Beautiful. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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