April 27, 2000

 

Mayor and Volunteers Join Forces to
Keep Vancouver Spectacular

 

Mayor Philip Owen and a team of volunteers will take to the streets to officially launch the 4th annual Keep Vancouver Spectacular city-wide clean-up campaign on:

Saturday, May 6
Clean-up begins at 10 a.m.

Mayor speaks to participants at 1 p.m.
Location: parking lot immediately west of Fraser Street at 45th Ave.

Mayor Owen will lend a hand to the volunteers as they remove garbage and graffiti from the Fraser Street area between 41st and 53rd Avenue, from St. George to Prince Albert Street.

Keep Vancouver Spectacular is a program run by the City of Vancouver every May that helps organize residents to tidy up streets, lanes and shorelines in their communities. The City supplies free garbage bags, gloves, bins for large-scale clean-ups, street and lane sweeping and the services of the Graffiti Busters van. Last year, almost 5,000 volunteers joined forces to clean up 1,500 city blocks.

Anyone may join a clean-up team in their own or another neighbourhood. Volunteers will share in a tidier neighbourhood, a greater sense of community and the chance to win prizes.

Sign up, learn how to run a successful clean-up and pick up free supplies by calling the Keep Vancouver Spectacular Hotline at 871-6544 or visit the City's Web site at www.city.vancouver.bc.ca

 

 

Media enquiries:    

Karima Mulji
Engineering
873-7307

 

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