Volunteers Show Pride in LGBT Pride Month Greening & Cleaning Event

For immediate release: June 19, 2015 

Contact: Rachel Gordon, 415-554-6045

Volunteers Show Pride in LGBT Pride Month Greening & Cleaning Event 

Saturday’s Community Projects to Focus on SF’s District 8 Neighborhoods

San Francisco, CA – More than 150 volunteers will show their pride on Saturday, June 20, 2015, with Supervisor Scott Wiener and San Francisco Public Works crews as they get to work beautifying the Castro, Diamond Heights, Noe Valley, Eureka Valley and other District 8 neighborhoods by planting trees, removing graffiti and sprucing up medians.

The workday is part of Community Clean Team, Public Works’ largest and longest-running volunteer program. The projects will spruce up District 8 neighborhoods prior to the upcoming LGBT Pride celebrations.

When: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 9 a.m. kickoff 

Kickoff location: Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, 4235-19th-Street 

What: Community Clean Team Volunteer workday 

Who: Volunteers, District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, Public Works’ crews 

Photo opportunities: 

-Tree planting around the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy 

-Planting, weeding the Diamond Heights Boulevard median 

-Graffiti abatement along 18th Street in the Castro 

-Planting Guerrero Street median, from 16th Street to 17th Street 

-Park beautification at Eureka Valley Playground 

-Litter pickup around Church and Market streets

This is the sixth of 11 Community Clean Team events planned for the 2015 season. Each month, volunteers focus on a different supervisorial district.

Now celebrating its 15th anniversary, Community Clean Team has logged more than 148,000 volunteer hours, added more than 30,000 plants to public spaces, and painted over more than 3 million square feet of graffiti. Information about dates and locations, and how to sign up, can be found at sfpublicworks.org/volunteer.

Sponsors and volunteer organizations include: College Hill Neighbors, Paul Matalucci and the Diamond Heights Boulevard neighbors, Success Centers, Blade and Storrie Street Park Garden stewards, San Francisco Parks Alliance Clean and Green Crew, the Garden Project, Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 76, Starbucks, Walgreens, NICE Water, Emerald Fund, Recology, the Hilton, Academy of Art University, PG&E, Blue Shield of California, Luxor Cabs, SF Clean City Coalition, Local 261, San Francisco Public Works, SF Unified School District, SF Housing Authority, Juvenile Probation Department, Department of the Environment, the Recreation and Park Department, Project 20 Pretrial Diversion Program, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Chinese Newcomers, United Playaz, Community Youth Center, Tzu-Chi and Geo Care.

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