Historical March 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Skinker DeBaliviere’s “Blitz” Saturday is scheduled for May 2. Project Blitz is a city-wide cleanup program sponsored by Operation Brightside.
The City is divided into ten Regions for Blitz, the Regions into Areas, Areas into Blocks.
On each Region’s scheduled Saturday, the City provides regular and heavy trash pick-up, tools (brooms, rakes, etc.), large trash bags, flowers, wood chips, and mulch for volunteers to use in cleaning and sprucing up their neighborhood’s public areas (including alleys). Through private donations, Brightside provides hot dogs and soft drinks for volunteers and offers prizes for the Best Cleanup/Best Beautification projects in each Region.
The Regional winners compete for Citywide awards. “Flower Bowl,” new this year, is a flower planting competition for high schools.
All the plans for Blitz are not final, but it’s not too soon for you, your block, your scout troop, etc., to be thinking of and planning a special project. Commanders for our Area are Sam Green and Nancy Farmer of the SDCC. Call the Council office, 862-5122, with questions or suggestions, or contact your block captain.
A meeting for block captains and area volunteers with Brightside staff will be scheduled later in March. Watch for more information in the April issue of The Times, and please, plan to spend a few hours Saturday, May 2, cleaning and improving your neighborhood.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1987.
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