Four Corners to Head BLITZ Agenda（英文）

1987年4月

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Four Corners plaza framed by blossoming trees.

Historical April 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

Saturday, May 2, is Operation Brightside’s “Blitz Day” in Skinker-DeBaliviere. Commanders for this area are Nancy Farmer, SDCC, and Sam Green. Green and Farmer are recruiting block captains.

If you don’t know who your block captain is, or if you’re willing to volunteer, call the SDCC office, 862-5122. Area headquarters will be located at the SDCC offices, 6010A Kingsbury.

The morning of Blitz, block captains may pick up tools, bags, and flowers at headquarters beginning at 8 a.m.

At noon, hot dogs and sodas will be served, also at headquarters, for all volunteers who participate in the cleanup.

The City will provide a limited number of tools for volunteers to use on Blitz Saturday including shovels, street brooms, weed whips, and leaf rakes. Flowers available for planting in public areas this year are: Apollo (tall) and Petite Mix (dwarf) Marigolds, Black-Eyed Susan Mita and Amplexi, and Hibiscus. Dirt, wood chips, and leaf mulch will be available throughout Blitz Week. Request for these items as well as trash bags should be made to your block captain. Anheuser Busch is again sponsoring a contest for special projects this year.

The guidelines are:

• Awards will be given in two categories: Best Beautification/Planting and Best Cleanup.

• Each project must be solely the accomplishment of the group entering.

• Entry forms must be submitted to Area Commanders by April 17

• Projects may start before Blitz Saturday but must be completed that day.

• Flowers will be available in advance to groups requesting them through their Area Commanders.

• Special projects may include painting and fixing up an elderly or impoverished neighbor’s property; cleaning the yard of a vacant building; planting a vegetable garden or flower garden on a vacant lot; cleaning a street or alley that is particularly bad.

• “Before” photographs of the project should be submitted one week prior to Blitz Saturday. Cash prizes, donated by Anheuser Busch, will be awarded for the Best Beautification and Best Cleanup projects:

• $100 First Place; $50 Second Place; and $25 Third Place for each category in each region.

• Regional winners are eligible for Grand Prizes of $1,000 First Place; $500 Second Place; and $250 Third Place in a Citywide Competition.

Although this is our sixth Blitz, general trash instructions for the day bear repeating:

• Trash pickup will begin at 9 a.m.

• Trucks will come by more than once.

• If trash has not been picked up by 4 p.m., call Regional headquarters, 367-8085. (Use this number ONLY on Blitz Saturday.)

• Each truck can pick up only the type of refuse shown by the sign on the truck.

• Please stop putting trash out at 3 p.m.

• Place all small items into dumpsters; do not overload.

• Place large metal items, such as stoves, into one pile at least 4 feet away from the dumpster.

• Make sure nothing is within 4 feet of dumpster or the container cannot be emptied.

• Do not block a street, alley, or sidewalk with bulky items.

• Place items at your regular refuse collection point, not on private property. Do NOT shovel loose debris into a pile and expect City employees to load it. Any small items should be placed in the dumpster or bagged; limbs and branches should be bundled.

The SDCC is entering Four Corners Plaza as a special project.

This focal point of our neighborhood is in need of paint, cleanup, and planting. Call SDCC if you can help with the project. Blitz Day is designed to provide City residents an annual kick-off opportunity to clean and spruce up their neighborhoods.

It is just a kick-off, though.

A few hours one Saturday each year isn’t enough to keep the neighborhood clean and attractive.

The alleys of Skinker-DeBaliviere overall look much better this year than they did this time last year.

Many streets, on the other hand, need additional attention. Litter is abundant; contrary to popular practice, storm sewers are not trash receptacles. Take advantage of Blitz for an annual spring cleaning, but please remember — alleys, streets, dumpsters, etc., need attention year ’round.