Rub-a-dub C.V. gets a scrub

La Crescenta got a thorough cleaning last Saturday as more than one hundred volunteers turned out for the 14th Annual Glendale Clean-up Day.

Members of several civic organizations, including the Rotary Club and the Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce as well as students from Fremont Elementary School’s K-Kids Kiwanis group, arrived at Dunsmore Park, ready to get down and dirty.

The event was coordinated with Make A Difference Day, the nation’s largest day for volunteering. According to Juan Gonzales, from the Committee for a Clean & Beautiful Glendale and coordinator of Saturday’s event, the goal for the day was to “make the foothills look great.”

Following a continental breakfast, volunteers were divided into groups and assigned different foothill areas. One group was assigned to a weed-infested lot across from Clark High School, another was sent to the Lowell Avenue onramp of the Foothill (210) Freeway.

A group of several sixth grade students from Fremont Elementary School, all dressed in Kiwanis green K-Kids shirts, attacked the south side of Foothill Boulevard, scouring for errant cigarette butts and miscellaneous debris.

Todd Thornbury was accompanying his sixth grade daughter, Morgan, who was with her Fremont class.

“I just wanted to come out and support the kids,” he said. “It’s a great social event. The people who do this are truly special.”

Gonzalez said that the day was just one of many projects that the Committee for a Clean & Beautiful Glendale undertake and that finding volunteers is not usually difficult.

“People are always looking for an opportunity to lend a hand, to help out,” he said. “We just provide that opportunity.”