OPERATION LITTLE SWEEP. Neighborhood boys from 10 to 14 years of age were paid by area merchants, Washington Heights Neighbors and Rosedale-Skinker to keep the business area clean this summer. Beginning at 7 a.m. the boys worked for 50 cents an hour for two hours a day, five days a week cleaning the business area on Delmar from Skinker to Belt, DeBaliviere from Delmar to the Expressway. Operation Little Sweep was started by Officer Bob Meeks of the Seventh District Police-Community Relations Office (pictured on the left) last summer. Originally the operation was started along Easton Ave. This summer he expanded the operation to include the DeBaliviere area.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1970.
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