Save March 3, 2007 - Great American Clean-Up Day

LOS ANGELES (January 19, 2007) - Neighborhood Council leaders recently unanimously elected two of their colleagues to sit on the City of Los Angeles Keep Los Angeles Beautiful Advisory Board, Board of Public Works President Cynthia Ruiz, announced. Suzanne Simmons of the Park Mesa Heights Community Council and Candido Marez of the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council will represent the City‚s Neighborhood Council‚s on the board. A group of 15 board advisors, chaired by the Public Works Board President, will steer City projects in the annual Keep American Beautiful campaign: The Great American Clean up, March 1 to May 31.
Under the umbrella of Keep American Beautiful, our program Keep Los Angeles Beautiful project will focus on picking up trash, recycling, painting out graffiti and planting trees,‰ said Ruiz. "We will launch the campaign with a kick off of the Great American Clean up on Saturday, March 3, at Los Angeles City hall." Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, elected City officials, a White House representative and the national director of Keep American Beautiful will participate.
Projects that day will take place in downtown Los Angeles and at Echo Park Lake and include picking up litter, planting trees and flowers at fire stations, schools, and homeless shelters, and painting out graffiti at various locations.
Keep America Beautiful is a national non-profit organization founded in 1953 with more than 550 affiliates nationwide. Its mission is to engage individuals to take greater responsibility for litter prevention, waste reduction, and beautification to improve communities and environments. The annual Great American Clean Up is in its 22nd year nationwide with an estimated 2.5 million volunteers and some 30,000 events in 15,000 communities.
The Public Works Department is the third largest municipal agency in the City. With more than 5,700 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion, DPW is responsible for construction, renovation and operation of public facilities and infrastructure. For more information about the Department of Public Works call the Public Works Public Affairs Office at (213) 978-0333, or email: PAO@lacity.org. The website address is: www.lacity.org/DPW/dpwhome.