In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works July 2017 | Page 45

One such group is The Garden
Project, a local nonprofit that
empowers at-risk young adults
through environmentally based job
training. Close to 50 folks from
the organization set off to beautify
City College’s main campus by
performing various landscaping
tasks, including weeding and
spreading mulch.
Volunteers from the Tzu Chi
Foundation, a humanitarian
organization with international
roots, teamed up with Public Works
employees to clear overgrown
weeds and prune shrubs and
trees at the Los Palmos Drive
community garden. The folks
from Tzu Chi are regulars at
Community Clean Team, and
demonstrate their organization’s
values of environmental protection,
volunteerism and humanistic care
through hard work and can-do
attitudes.
Other neighborhood improvements
included habitat restoration at the
Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation
Center; painting and cleaning City
trash cans and electrical boxes on
Phelan Avenue and filling tree
basins along Ocean Avenue.
Community Clean Team will be
back next month! Be sure to mark
your calendar for August 26 when
we will be planting 500 trees in
District 11 neighborhoods; this is
an event you won’t want to miss!
The kickoff will be held at Balboa
High School, 1000 Cayuga Ave.
As always, registration begins at
8:30 and the speaking program will
begin at 9 a.m.
July 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter