Welcome to Volunteers Cleaning Communities
Let's make our community a cleaner place for us, our neighbors, our families and the future members of our community.
ADOPT-1-STREET PROGRAM
Join volunteering individuals and groups from all over our community who have pledged to help keep our city clean!
As an Adopt-1-Street volunteer you are able to "adopt" an area that you are committed to keeping litter free for a period of two years.
Visit the website adopt1street.org to learn more.
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS DAYt
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS DAY
DATE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20th
TIME: 10am-4pm
PLACE: CHATSWORTH TRAIN STATION NORTH PARKING LOT AREA
This will be a day for all community members - young and old - to learn how they can be involved in their community beautification, environmental contribution, volunteerism, and making their community a better place to live and enjoy.
There will be environmental organization booths, demonstrations (like how bees are good for the environment, milkweed gardens for monarch butterflies, trees that are best to plant in our draught conditions, etc.), live music, food trucks, activity tables (like painting rocks that will be put in the rock garden at Limekiln Park, competitive recycle material art contest, etc.) and much, much more for an enjoyable and educational day.
This is the first of many - one per every quarter - and it is designed to give you a fun day with family that educates us about things that will help us make a better community environmentally.
If you are interested in being a EXHIBITOR, VENDOR or VISITOR please click on "find out more about this event" button.
About Adopt A Highway Project
Adopt A Highway Program
The Adopt-a-Highway program, and the very similar Sponsor-a-Highway, are promotional campaigns undertaken by U.S. states, provinces and territories of Canada, and some national governments outside North America to encourage volunteers to keep a section of a highway free from litter.
The contract is for a 5-year period, with the expectation of working the highway at least twice a month to keep it clean of litter.
The only reward for this is "making a difference in the cleanliness of the highways" and a sign on your section of the highway so that drivers will know who is responsible for keeping that area clean.
Adopt A Highway Program provides safety training, all equipment, trash bags, support and oversee of accomplishments.
CALL TO ACTION FOR EVERYONE WHO DISLIKES LITTER!
BASH SOME TRASH WEEKENDS
This weekend and every weekend we challenge EVERYONE to “take a walk, take a bag, take some trash off the streets!”
The bag should be one of your trash bags you use every day and/or a grocery bag like you get from your local market. Fill it with all the litter you find (including cigarette butts) in your selected area.
Grab your friends, your family members, your dog, your neighbors, or just go out alone on your walk and have some fun – let me know if you find something highly unique on your walk (or even money). This is a great activity to do with your kids!
After you collect your bag of litter – TAKE A PICTURE – SEND it to me at jillmather@earthlink.net or text to 818-519-7567 with THE YOUR NAME and THE CITY you collected it from.
We want this to be a every weekend day event for us – “BASH SOME TRASH” – and will be tracking your litter removal progress toward a fun contest, rewards, community recognition for your amazing efforts.
Let’s all go out and “BASH SOME TRASH” to make cleaner communities.
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website: https://volunteerscleaningcommunities.com
facebook: Volunteers for a Cleaner Chatsworth
SCHOOL & ORGANIZATION PROGRAM
FOR THE SCHOOLS / TEACHERS: "LITTER SCAVENGER HUNT" PROGRAM
Our "Litter Scavenger Hunt Program" is designed to work with our youth - to help them understand that cleaning our communities is something everyone must take on as their responsibility, but in a fun, interactive and educational way.
The program can be personalized for each event, but the basics include the following:
Change the Mindset of Littering:
- Pre-School & Grammar School Program
- Environmental Education
- Recycling Education
- Team Activity: Litter Scavenger Hunt
- Teachers are Leaders of the actual scavenger hunt / participate
- Teams of 2-4 students
- Complete the scavenger hunt list during the activity
- Prizes for EACH person who completes the scavenger hunt list
After the actual scavenger hunt, we talk about each of the elements of the litter - whether it is recyclable; what is bad for the ocean; what is bad for animals... and ideas for how we can get the community to take responsibility for their own trash and stop the littering.
Contact us below and request a program for your class / school.
HAVE FUN AS A FAMILY & MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
FAMILY LITTER SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY
One Sunday every month we will have Cinnabon, the Trash Donkey, out to meet families while they "Litter Scavenger Hunt" to earn a "prize"
Bring the entire family and join in making a difference in your community while having fun! Each child will get a grabber, litter bag and a Litter Scavenger Hunt list that they need to complete with their parents around the park / community streets - bring the completed form back and they will receive a gift as a reward. The parents will also get a trash bag and grabber so that they can pick up the other trash along the way and clean our streets.
TAKE A PICTURE with Cinnabon and sign his trash bag!
TIME: 9:00AM - 11:00AM
DATE: AUGUST 15 - SUNDAY
PLACE: MASON PARK - 10500 Mason Ave, Chatsworth, CA 91311
TESTIMONIALS & INDIVIDUAL CLEAN UPS IN OUR COMMUNITY
MARY GINGRIS
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
I haven’t been able to join the clean ups since the day I helped at the LA River several weeks ago. I really do enjoy reading your updates and I’m always disappointed when I’m not able to participate, but at the same time, I’m encouraged by your determination to go out on your “non-event“ days and just pick up trash on your walks.
So, bec
I haven’t been able to join the clean ups since the day I helped at the LA River several weeks ago. I really do enjoy reading your updates and I’m always disappointed when I’m not able to participate, but at the same time, I’m encouraged by your determination to go out on your “non-event“ days and just pick up trash on your walks.
So, because of that, I have been inspired and motivated to pick up trash in my neighborhood while walking my Goldendoodle, Mabel. Today, I invited my best friend Crystal and her Goldendoodle, Moose, (sibling to Mabel) to join me in picking up trash on Devonshire from Wilber to Tampa and we filled 4 kitchen size trash bags. On my walk back home I pickup up another bag full on the backside of Nobel Middle school, as well as part of Wilbur. It was very satisfying and I felt such a relief to finally see my streets litter-free!!
I know that I have the choice to make a difference in my immediate community, any time and any day. So, I’ve made it my personal goal and purpose to continue doing that with different friends on different days. Thanks for your weekly/daily determination and inspiration that is contagious! I do hope to join you again soon!!
Blessings, Mary Girgis
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
I started cleaning up around the Target on San Fernando Mission and Balboa. Count so far is two bags. This morning I also branched out to the liquor store across the street. We have some homeless there so it tends to get messy not to mention it’s a high traffic area.
Hope you have a great time and safe travels. Don’t worry about things here we’ll keep the momentum alive.
Steve Hirschberg
ROBERT FERKLE
STEVE HIRSCHBERG
ROBERT FERKLE
Thank you. Just came back from filling up 3 bags from the bridge at the 118. Wow, so much trash down there. Probably be another 10 to 15 more filled bags. Crazy.
Robert Ferkle
DONATION BY PURCHASING ORIGINAL AT AT ETSY STORE
ARTFORACAUSEBYJILL
During the early covid pandemic, I spent time creating colored pencil drawings - one a day - of animals, birds, reptiles, etc. These drawings are being used to help fund our activities, events, upcoming mini Earth Days, School 'scavenger litter hunt" education, etc.
Please take a look at the ETSY STORE SITE. It is a way of donating and actually getting a product for the donation.
I would be proud to have it hanging on your wall or to be used as a gift.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtforaCausebyJill?ref=search_shop_redirect
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