Historical April 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Operation Brightside’s annual Blitz Day is scheduled for May 5 for our area. “Blitz Day” is a clean up program which brings together neighborhood volunteers, city services, and private industry to clean up and beautify city neighborhoods, particularly alleys and other public areas. Mark your calendars and plan to spend a few hours cleaning your alley on May 5. Through Operation Brightside, the city will provide volunteer workers with tools (shovels, rakes, brooms and weed whips), seedling flowers (marigolds and petunias this year) to plant in public areas, and wood chips for use on public or private property.
The City’s refuse division will collect both regular and bulky trash at least two times in each alley between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Blitz Saturday.
If you wish to order flowers, please contact your block captain or the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council.
If you are willing to volunteer as a Block Captain or to work on a special project, also call the SDCC at 862-5122.
Please follow these important trash instructions on Blitz Saturday (and most of them throughout the year!):
1. Trash pick-up will start at 10 a.m.
a. Trucks will come several times throughout the day.
b.
Please stop putting trash out at 3p.m.
c.
If trash has not been picked up at 3 p.m., call the Blitz Hotline at 781.4556.
2. Place everything at your normal refuse collection point.
a. Place all small items into trash dumpsters, being careful not to overload. Large and bagged items should be placed 4 feet away from dumpsters.
b. Place large items, such as stoves and sofas, into one pile at least 4 feet away from dumpsters.
c. Make sure nothing is within 4 feet of dumpsters or the container will not be emptied.
d. Do not block a street, alley or sidewalk with bulky items.
e. Place items at your regular trash collection point, not on private property.
f. Do not shovel loose debris into a pile and expect city employees to load it.
g. Limbs and branches must be bundled. Skinker-DeBaliviere has been lucky to have many blocks where lots of the neighbors pitched in on Blitz Day. Be sure you are one of them this year.
Original photograph caption
Blitz Day in1989brought out these Skinker-DeBaliviere neighbors. Photo by King Schoenfeld. The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April1990, page1.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April 1990.
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Original source: SD_Times1990_04.pdf, printed page(s) 1; PDF page(s) 1.
