Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Towards a More Beautiful Los Angeles
Recently about 30 students from our program along with myself and a couple staff members attended the Los Angeles Kickoff of Keep America Beautiful. As far as kickoffs, speeches and rah rah went it was a great political event.
No offense, but the problem was – we went expecting to roll up our sleeves and do real cleanup. However our assignment was to go to Little Tokyo to sweep streets that are routinely cleaned! Maybe next year we can find some more needy neighborhoods and neighbors to serve. But, being the good citizens we desire to be we decided to walk to Starbucks to thank them for their donations and to sweep their parking lot. A great time was had by all as can be seen in these photos!
We were also blessed with some new flowers to plant in our courtyard to cheer the spirits of our friends and neighbors. Special thanks to Bert Ball for buying all the student coffee and goodies! I know this random act of kindness has paid eternal dividends.
I hope the spirit of this event gets put into some real elbow grease cleaning up our parks and public areas. We at the Los Angeles Mission are committed to keeping our facility at it’s best for service to the community. Our thanks to everyone that lends a helping hand.
-Herb Smith, President
No offense, but the problem was – we went expecting to roll up our sleeves and do real cleanup. However our assignment was to go to Little Tokyo to sweep streets that are routinely cleaned! Maybe next year we can find some more needy neighborhoods and neighbors to serve. But, being the good citizens we desire to be we decided to walk to Starbucks to thank them for their donations and to sweep their parking lot. A great time was had by all as can be seen in these photos!
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We were also blessed with some new flowers to plant in our courtyard to cheer the spirits of our friends and neighbors. Special thanks to Bert Ball for buying all the student coffee and goodies! I know this random act of kindness has paid eternal dividends.
I hope the spirit of this event gets put into some real elbow grease cleaning up our parks and public areas. We at the Los Angeles Mission are committed to keeping our facility at it’s best for service to the community. Our thanks to everyone that lends a helping hand.
-Herb Smith, President
