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Volunteers pick up trash along the L.A. River; About 150 gather plastic bags and other debris in the Van Nuys area

Posted by: Maven on August 24, 2009 at 6:28 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

“A group of about 150 volunteers gathered Saturday to clear a portion of the Los Angeles River in Van Nuys. Among their finds: lots of plastic grocery bags, hundreds of cigarette butts, a baseball and, at least for some, a newfound appreciation for the waterway. “You should go over there. It’s really pretty,” said Kiya Villareal, a 16-year-old from Sherman Oaks who was there with her family. “They have bamboo and water.”

The event was organized by the Friends of the Los Angeles River and underwritten by a $50,000 donation from Aquarius Spring, a bottled water branch of the Coca-Cola Co.; it supplements the Friends of the Los Angeles River’s annual clean-up.

Jon Mukri, general manager of the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, said his department has never had the funding for such work.

“You’re bringing life to a river that was dead when I was a kid,” he told the volunteers as they donned gloves, picked up large blue trash bags and headed into the river. …”

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August 24, 2009 · Filed Under Southern California

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