David Weisberg and Nancy Nicoloro fell in love while helping fill 27,673 lawn leaf-sized bags with garbage.
Jill Mather, founder of Volunteers Cleaning Communities, removes trash from the Haskell Creek riverbed during a cleanup event of the area Saturday morning.Who would ever imagine discovering the love of his or her life while picking up trash in San Fernando Valley?
Decked out in neon yellow safety vests during their two-hour daily search, the volunteer picker-uppers also make arrangements to dispose of bigger items like dumped couches and car tires. Claudine Singer, of Volunteers Cleaning Communities, picks up trash in Chatsworth Park on Monday, July 29, 2024 near where Nancy Nicoloro finds fresh graffiti on a boulder she recently painted over. Three hundred active members participate in VCC’s morning cleanups throughout the Valley and Los Angeles.
Jill Mather, founder of Volunteers Cleaning Communities, wraps up a day of trash picking as she puts her arm around Dale Struman on Monday, July 29, 2024 at Chatsworth Park. Mather formed the group during the pandemic and now has 300 active members in VCC’s morning cleanups throughout the Valley and Los Angeles.
Volunteer Cleaning Communities holds cleanup events in the northeast Valley. Granada Hills CA, July 13, 2024 They work near the 118 Freeway and Balboa Ave., picking up trash. Every day she collected three bags of trash and soon realized that dumping garbage, mattresses, broken furniture and other trash on the streets and sidewalks was a serious issue in largely residential Chatsworth. So she began to invite others to join her.
When the volunteers come upon illegally dumped items that can’t fit into a bag — such as tires, furniture and mattresses — they use personal or rental U-Haul trucks and city-owned vehicles to deliver the bulky trash to local sanitation yards. Every situation is different.
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