La Mesa Village Cleanup

Village Clean Up Saturday Hopes For Citizen Help

LA MESA -- For a number of months, factions among Village merchants and civic leaders have been debating who should be paying to regularly help clean up and spruce up the streets.

For at least one day, all those groups could be unified as the citizens themselves take brooms and brushes in hand and take to the Village streets to clean up in advance of the city's Centennial kickoff on Tuesday.

Organizers of this Saturday's La Mesa Village Clean Up are expected at least 100 local residents will join Mayor Art Madrid and help pick up trash, paint the curbs and sweep clear those places where the street sweepers can't reach.

The cleanup will be limited to two hours -- 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. -- and volunteers are asked to meet in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church of La Mesa at 8111 Orange Avenue.

Participants should bring gloves, brooms, rakes and dust pans. Plastic bags will be provided along with cleaning supplies to polish and clean city fixtures. Contact Kelly or Jim Wieboldt c/o Unique Travel at 619/464-6426 for further details.

The central organizers of this effort have been among the supporters of the proposed Property Based Improvement District, but they point out proponents and opponents agree on the need for a cleaner downtown and this effort is aimed at improving things now in time for the beginning of the Centennial celebration.