For Immediate Release

April 16, 2010

Contact:  (415) 554-6930     

Public Works Celebrates Earth Day with Large Cleanup Activities

Work includes cleaning and greening work on O’Shaughnessy, Castro Street, Twin Peaks,

Dolores Park, Woodside Garden, Lowell High School

San Francisco, Ca— More than 400 volunteers will work together to clean and green San Francisco’s O’Shaughnessy, Castro, Twin Peaks, Dolores Park, Woodside Garden, Lowell High School, and neighborhoods throughout Districts 7 & 8 on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 9 am to noon at Christopher Playground at Diamond Heights Blvd. and Duncan to celebrate Earth Day.

 

Volunteers with the department’s Community Clean Team program will help remove weeds and overgrown vegetation, paint out graffiti, paint city property, and pick up litter at project sites and on neighborhood streets.

 

The Community Clean Team is a partnership between neighbors, schools, local businesses and the Department of Public Works, Recreation and Park Department, San Francisco Housing Authority, and with support from supervisors Bevan Dufty and Sean Elsbernd, and the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services.  

 

Sunset Scavenger Company is providing the Gigantic Three – free bulky items drop off service— to residents in Districts 7 & 8 on Saturday morning from 8 am to 12 noon at Sunset Circle and St. John’s School to help them recycle, compost and drop off unwanted household items.  Proof of district residency is required.

 

What:             Earth Day and Community Clean Team in Districts 7 & 8

When:           Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 9 AM

Where:          Christopher Playground, Diamond Heights Blvd. @ Duncan

 

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