May 28th - Jun 21st - touch the water A River Play from the Cornerstone Theater Company. Come see FoLAR founder Lewis MacAdams and Joe Linton, author of Down By the LA River, perform in a brave, humorous, and exciting play about life along the River - performed at the LA River!! Details here.

 

 

 

Marsh Park Bike Site! At Marsh Park we managed to collect 2.8 tons of trash, the heaviest haul of all the sites. The majority of that trash was hauled by bike trailer from the banks to the dumpster. Thanks to volunteer groups from Sempra Energy/The Gas Company and Gay4Good and all our neighborhood helpers for showing up and making a really big difference!

 

 

Willow Workers At Willow Estuary, people showed up in force to clean up this valuable migrating bird habitat.

 

 

Tujunga Wash CleanUp volunteers cleaned up the Tujunga Wash bed out at the foot of the mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t miss performances by FoLAR’s founder and Chairman on the Board of Directors Lewis MacAdams, along with Joe Linton, author of Down By the Los Angeles River. Come for special pre-play walks starting at 7pm on select nights. Details below…

 

Cornerstone Theater Company presents

Touch the Water
A River Play

Written by
Julie Hébert

 

For more information, visit the Cornerstone website and sign-up for e-mail updates.
www.CornerstoneTheater.org

What a success! Together with 3,000 of your friends and neighbors, you picked up over 30,000 pounds of trash in just three hours. We also recycled over 400 pounds of recyclables within the City of LA, thanks to the Bureau of Sanitation. We saw fewer large, heavy items than we have in the past, which might mean that people are less likely to dump that stuff in the River these days. That's the good news. Unfortunately the majority of what was pulled out was made of already disintegrating plastic, and boy were there a lot of plastic bags! As you probably know, the LA River contributes a significant proportion of the plastic trash that floats in the Pacific Ocean. Every piece we pick up doesn't make it to the ocean - congratulations on a job well done! If you missed it this year, don't worry, we'll be back next year.

 

Photo courtesy Many Paths World Service Sepulveda Basin Site

 

All the details for each site are on our recently updated CleanUp page on the website, where you'll see that now there is a page for each CleanUp site. We're working on putting info on all the sites, including trash weight (where available), numbers of volunteers, and photos from each site. This year over 30 large community groups, organized by businesses, non-profits, schools, and other organizations attended the CleanUp, which doesn't include all the residents and individuals who came with their families, friends, or just happened to walk their dog by while the CleanUp was going on. To everyone who helped out - Thank you!

 

 

We'd like to thank our sponsors once again, for without them, we'd be hard pressed to come up with t-shirts, raffle prizes, trash bags, water, and bottles. We couldn't have done it without you: