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City Clean Ups Riverside Looking Great in '08
So many wonderful people from our community were dedicated in this three-part beautification project. Thanks to Lorraine Ferrini from Original Tommy’s for the generous lunch sponsor donation, Frank Corral with PEP (Public Education Program against Graffiti) who led the graffiti paint-out portion of the project, the Sycamore Highlands Action Group for helping organize and coordinate the tree-planting volunteer recruitment, Councilman Andy Melendrez for giving all of us an encouraging word on community involvement, West Coast Arborists for assisting in the tree planting, and finally, thanks to the KRCB Advisory Board Members who assisted in set-up, pictures, registration, and much more; Brenda Flowers, Bud Fish, Ann Gore, Mike Blakely, and Linda Lawyer, and a special thanks to Ty Lawyer for his commitment to our registration table. 2007 Dare to Care for Riverside
Special thanks to Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful and City of Riverside Public Works Department for providing assistance, t-shirts, vests, gloves, tools and trash bag removal. Freshman Class Takes Lessons in Service
Day of Caring: Blaine and Iowa Litter Clean Up On September 8, 2007 KRCB and volunteers partnered with United Way of the Inland Valleys to participate in the “Day of Caring” event. Day of Caring events have inspired thousands of volunteers across the country and this is the first year United Way of the Inland Valleys organized such event in Riverside County. KRCB provided support by doing a litter cleanup on Iowa between Blaine and Massachusetts. Twenty volunteers from Riverside Community College, Sherman Indian High School, AmeriCorps and community residents donated over 90 hours to pickup 900 lbs. of litter and green-waste from the area located across from K-Mart. Volunteers headed back to Riverside Plaza and were treated to a thank you lunch & prizes provide by United Way. Special thanks to the City of Riverside for providing trash pickup and thanks to the volunteers for Keeping Riverside Clean & Beautiful!
On September 8th, 22 volunteers from J.W.P. participated in the United Way's Day of Caring with a graffiti paint out near Martha Maclean park. The City of Riverside's Public Works Department supplied paint for the volunteers, and was a great help in setting up the locations. Volunteers used about 20 gallons of paint to cover graffiti on the tresses near the bike bath, a building in the metro link parking lot near Fremont Avenue, and a wall near Jurupa Avenue. Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful would like to thank Frank Corral with the City of Riverside for his assistance in coordinating the graffiti paint-out. M Fuge Helps Riverside
On July 24th, 122 M-Fuge volunteers gathered at Hidden Valley Wildlife Park to paint the visitors center and clean a trail. The following day, 15 volunteers arrived at the Flood Control and Water Conservation District to help assemble educational packages. Meanwhile, another group of 14 M-Fuge volunteers helped out at the Riverside Corona Resource Conservation District assembling “Living On The Edge” packages. On July 25th, 114 of the same M-Fuge volunteers cleared trails, weeded rose begs, and cleaned orange groves at the California Citrus State Historic Park. Sixteen of the volunteers then returned to the Hidden Valley Wildlife park to complete painting projects. On the last day of their volunteer work in Riverside, a group of 20 M-Fuge volunteers walked the Sycamore Highlands neighborhood distributing brochures about local watersheds and wildlife. Meanwhile another group of 15 volunteers painted the trim on a home and fixed a wooden fence. Thanks to all of the hard-working volunteers from the M-Fuge organization for your time and dedication to help Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful. CrossPoints Church Cleans Up Riverside On June 25, 26 and 27, 2007, over 225 volunteers from CrossPoint Church met at Lincoln Park and joined Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful and City of Riverside Development Department to revitalize 12 resident’s homes in the Eastside neighborhood. The goal was to improve the curb appeal of homes surrounding the Lincoln Park area. Over the three day period, CrossPoint Church volunteers donated over 1,000 hours to put in sod, pull weeds, plant flowers, helped residents move bulky items, cleanup alleyways, paint-out graffiti in the park and surrounding area, and pickup litter in the Eastside area. 1-800-Got-Junk? donated a free bulky item pick for residents in the project area June 26 and 27. Homes surrounding the Lincoln Park area benefited from the volunteers efforts and made a remarkable difference in the Eastside neighborhood. A BIG Thank you to CrossPoint Church Volunteers, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, City of Riverside Development Department, Public Works Department and Lincoln Park Community Center for making Eastside neighborhood clean and beautiful! Student Life Volunteers in Riverside
The projects completed included weeding and cleaning trails at the
California Citrus State Historic Park; painting trim, repairing fence
and cleanup at resident home in the Eastside neighborhood; yard
cleanup, trimming back bushes, cleaning out a planter and moving
potted plants at senior resident home in the Arlington neighborhood
and marking (only rain in the drain) over 75 storm drains in Thanks to Student Life volunteers, California Citrus State Historic Park, Riverside Corona Resource Conservation District, Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and City of Riverside for all their support and assistance. Arizona Southern Baptist Clean Riverside Parks
On July 10th through July 13th, a total of 706 volunteers from the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention joined Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful to make a difference in two Riverside parks. At Fairmount park, 568 total volunteers divided up to nearly 150 new volunteers daily and painted curbs, prepped and re-striped four parking lots, planted honeysuckle near the band shell, and picked up over 500 pounds of trash and cigarette butts. In addition, the volunteers completed a cigarette survey counting cigarette butts in various locations throughout the park. Finally, the energetic volunteers painted the fishing pier and the boundary poles a beautiful hunter green and painted all of the park benches brown. California Citrus State Historic Park also saw 138 of the volunteers. On July 12th, these volunteers were treated to a tour of the visitors center before beginning work in the park. The group spent most of the day cleaning trails, weeding rose beds, and cleaning up orange groves. The volunteers also cleared a planted in the parking lot to make room for new plantings. The work involved raking leaves, trimming trees, pulling weeds all in the heat of summer. Thanks to Ranger Elizabeth Kettering and Ranger Julian Cadoza for their assistance with this project. And a big thank you to Arizona Southern Baptist Volunteers and Team leaders for all your hard work on these projects! Thank you to City of Riverside Park and Recreation’s sponsorship and staff assistance, as well as project supplies. |
More
than 200 students from the freshman class at California Baptist
University (CBU) did not let triple digit heat effect their commitment
to volunteer service in the community. CBU students worked with Keep
Riverside Clean and Beautiful (KRCB) on Saturday, September 1st
to clean up litter along the fence line on Diana Avenue from Adams
Street to Monroe Street. Some local families also joined CBU and Bud
Fish, chairman to KRCB advisory board and a ten-year volunteer with
group said, “By the end of the clean up the campus and the parameter
of it was spotless! The KRCB staff looks forward to more partnering
with CBU students in our volunteer efforts as we make our way through
the city the year round!
Each
summer a group of Middle and High School students arrive at the
California Baptist University to dedicate their time and hard work to
improving the City of Riverside. This group, known as M-Fuge is a
Christian-based summer camp dedicated to improving the lives of those
around them. 
On August
1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2007, fifty volunteers from Laveen Baptist Church
and Black Mountain Church joined forces with Keep Riverside Clean and
Beautiful to donate over 600 community service hours in the City of
Riverside.