Nearly 1,000 volunteers were expected to hit the streets throughout Fresno on Saturday as part of Beautify Fresno’s contributions to the Great American Cleanup.
Organizers described the effort as a labor of love that was to end in a party, complete with food trucks, music, and other activities at Chukchansi Park.
Volunteers pick up trash along an alley near Fink White Park in Fresno while participating in Beautify Fresno’s Great American Cleanup event on Saturday, April 30, 2022. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
Fifteen projects were targeted, from Lions Skate Park at 4050 N. Marks Ave., to the Tower District in the 1200 block of North Wishon Avenue, to Kings Canyon and Clovis avenues in southeast Fresno.
Kendrick Reyes, 6, of Fresno helps pick up trash with his mother, Maysia Lee, while participating in Beautify Fresno’s Great American Cleanup event at Fink-White Park in Fresno on Saturday, April 30, 2022. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
The Fresno Bee’s Marek Warszawski, left, and Joe Kieta, right, and Joe’s son Ethan participate in Beautify Fresno’s Great American Cleanup event near Fink-White Park in Fresno on Saturday, April 30, 2022. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
A native of Colorado, Jim Guy studied political science, Latin American politics and Spanish literature at Fresno State University, and advanced Spanish grammar in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
