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Help beautify our city by picking up litter, mowing lots, planting flowers, painting projects, etc.

Let's all get out there and clean up the city today.   8)

It will take more than a few willing hands to clean up this God forsaken dump of a city. A major earthquake that destroys every single structure rendering the city perminantly uninhabitable for a thousand years wouldn't go amiss.

  I will do this at a later date.

I like how they call it a "City-wide" cleanup, but most of the focus is, as always, downtown.

Didn't see no one cleaning up my street ... must have been busy watching the Indians get swamped or were watching the Kentucky Derby.

There were a LOT of people downtown.

https://www.facebook.com/youngstown.cityscape/posts/1599866013618155

Quote from: Peggy Gurney on May 02, 2015, 11:31:51 PM
I like how they call it a "City-wide" cleanup, but most of the focus is, as always, downtown.

The entire goal of this event is to get volunteers to come out and help clean up
all over the city, right?

I'm just guessing here, but I think they use the term "Citywide Cleanup" in order
to encourage people all over the city to come out and help clean up in their
own neighborhoods.

Even if volunteers are focusing on downtown, there is nothing stopping anyone who
wants to volunteer, and organize with others to volunteer in their own
neighborhoods - except themselves.

What Allan said. Myself and a crew picked up 500 tires from the West and South sides. Everyone was free to clean up anything they wanted to.

Yes guys, I do know that it actually IS a city-wide clean up.  I've been working it for the past 4 years or so, encouraging my own neighbors to clean up our neighborhood.
However, did anyone see any posts, either here or FB, or any articles in the newspaper or on the news about any cleanups anywhere except downtown?
I didn't, hence my post.

The Youngstown Litter Office ran announcements on TV the week prior to the citywide cleanup.

Quote from: Peggy Gurney on May 07, 2015, 12:02:23 AM
Yes guys, I do know that it actually IS a city-wide clean up.  I've been working it for the past 4 years or so, encouraging my own neighbors to clean up our neighborhood.
However, did anyone see any posts, either here or FB, or any articles in the newspaper or on the news about any cleanups anywhere except downtown?
I didn't, hence my post.

Peggy,

Pardon me I think I misinterpreted what you said....you were referring to the MEDIA always
focusing their COVERAGE on downtown cleanup activites, not the volunteers focusing all their
EFFORTS on the downtown ....right?


:-X

Yessir, that is what I meant. My apologies, I should have been more clear.
The media gives next-to-no coverage to other areas of the city who work hard to clean up and beautify there neighborhoods.
Well, except for certain areas of the west side.  ;)

 ;) That may be because those certain West Side groups are forever trying to outshine everyone else for their own vain glory. No one counts but them. ;)

LOL, you're silly.

The Rocky Ridge Neighborhood had a big clean up last Saturday.  Two councilmen and one future councilwoman attended as well as about twenty other volunteers.

The media did not cover this clean up, but then again they were not asked to be there.

ppffftt,  every time you turn around Rocky Ridge is in the news.  I'm not upset about it. No reason to be. I'm happy for all of their accomplishments.
I'm just saying that the media needs to be more fair in it's reporting of Youngstown neighborhood events.  We have invited them to events that they didn't come to.

Seventh Ward reply to Jay

Quote We have invited them to events that they didn't come to.

In a small way, this Forum is a media outlet.  So please tell us about your upcoming event and then give us a report (with pictures if possible) once the event has taken place.

That's precisely what I've been trying to do ever since I moved to the 7th ward but unfortunately the leaders of the neighborhood groups are unaware of the fact that this site exists, or they are inactive. Facebook has a site where local groups can post events and if something comes up,I'll post it here, but you seem to have a lot of connections beyond the West Side, and hopefully you can put a bug in their ear and get them to at least come here long enough to post events. iwasthere also has plenty of 7th ward contacts even though he is now in the 6th but that shouldn't stop him from doing what he can.

Quote from: Peggy Gurney on May 20, 2015, 09:31:49 AM
Yessir, that is what I meant. My apologies, I should have been more clear.
The media gives next-to-no coverage to other areas of the city who work hard to clean up and beautify there neighborhoods.
Well, except for certain areas of the west side.  ;)

Shoot....the volunteers should invite the media to HELP VOLUNTEER some of
THEIR time, in the name of community service....it would be great "P.R." for them.

It would solve the coverage problem too, since media usually likes to blow their
own horn.


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I DO NOT NEED A BAND, FIREWORKS AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS ICONS WHEN I DO AN ACT OF CHARITY. >:(