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Historical May 1982 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The Mayor looked around and saw dirt and trash covering the City.
He saw a small band of raiders cleaning the lost parkway and their work pleased him—Operation Brightside was born. Operation Brightside, a major clean-up and beautification campaign for the city of St. Louis, differs from its shortlived predecessors because it incorporates long-range plans to utilize the resources of business, labor, government, civic, and neighborhood volunteers to whip this persistent problem.
The Brightside staff, led by Lu Green, Rosedale neighbor, has developed three initial clean-up programs: Project Blitz, Project Greenlot and Project Mainstreet. Project Blitz is a ten-week program aimed at cleaning alleys, lots and other public areas.
For this project the city has been organized into ten regions and each weekend the ‘focus will be on one of these areas.
The Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood is in Region 6, an area bounded by Skinker, Martin Luther King, Kingshighway, and I-40 and is slated for clean-up the weekend of May 8-9.
This effort is being chaired by Leon Strauss of Pantheon and Brenda Weaver of Hamilton Place Assoc.
On Saturday, May 8, the focus will be on the clean-up of alleys and streets on our own blocks. Anyone who wishes to clean up their own block is encouraged to do so, or call Dan McGuire, 862-7470, Ron Laboe, 862-5122, or Father Polizzi, 721-6340 for more information.
This program is not for cleaning out basements or garages.
In order to recycle certain items the trash should be separated as follows:
1. Put all small items into plastic bags, being careful not to overload or puncture the bags.
2. Put large metal items, such as stoves, into one pile.
3. Put all other large items into another pile.
On Sunday, May 9, a clean-up of Des Peres from Delmar to Forest Park is planned.
The event is scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. and will start at Four Corners.
This clean-up is sponsored in conjunction with Central West End Savings & Loan, Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, and West End Neighborhood Arts Council. Under Project Greenlot, Brightside staff is locating city-owned lots that need to have heavy debris moved. Special crews will be used to do this work as well as to grade and seed the lots. Individuals and groups can purchase certain of these lots.
In addition, lots can be used by residents under the adopt-a-lot and garden programs of the Land Reutilization Authority. Project Mainstreet will employ hundreds of city youths, their salaries paid from federal and private funds.
These young people will be assigned two major tasks.
First, they will clean the right-of-way along highways and main streets throughout the city. Second, working with the city’s building division, they will board up abandoned buildings along these same routes and paint them with decorative stencils.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1982.
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