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People get info,plants,and paletas at PARKing Day 2010 We’ll host our second PARKing Day on Friday,September 16 from 10am-5pm outside of the Pacoima Branch Library. Come out and enjoy the fun! We’ll have treats,music,information,and shady places to sit. We’ll also have fun activities where you can make seed bombs . . . →Read More:Get Ready:PARK(ing) Day 2011 Swedish National Public Radio journalist Claes Andreasson recently profiled the work of the Clean Up Green Up campaign,highlighting the work of Pacoima Beautiful and Union de Vecinos,as well as the conditions are communities are up against and the need for this policy. You can read the article (as translated from the Swedish by . . . →Read More:PB in the News! New plants for the pathway Over 108 residents,students,and community members came out to the Pacoima Wash on April 30th to participate in the Mayor’s Day of Service. The focus of this year’s day of service was the Los Angeles River Watershed,with projects focused on improving the river and its tributaries happening . . . →Read More:Mayor’s Day of Service a Success! PB Staff in KPCR's Studio Three of our staff recently talked with student radio show host Melody Soto on her program “Voces del Valle,”which operates out of Pierce College’s very professional communications studios. Melody braved the rain to join us for our Haddon Bridge improvements day and was kind enough to feature us . . . →Read More:PB Work Featured on “Voces del Valle” Our Members Taking it to the Streets! A HUGE thank you to everyone who made our bridge and tunnel improvements possible this weekend,despite the scary weather! That means thanks to Assemblymember Fuentes and his staff,to Ackley Padilla in the office of Councilmember Alarcon (CD 7),to over 40 students from San Fernando . . . →Read More:Haddon Bridge Improvements a Success! Thanks to Danielle Brazell of Arts For LA,who joined us on a recent tour of Pacoima via the Southern California Leadership Network,for her recent coverage of PB and our work on her blog! “Another incredible example is happening in Pacoima. What initially started as a group of mothers mobilizing against illegal dumping,Pacoima Beautiful . . . →Read More:PB in Arts For LA Blog! PB Member Marcela Pacoima Beautiful is part of an exciting collaborative effort to Clean up and Green up Los Angeles through smarter land use policy. The aim is to address the cumulative impacts of pollution combined with other vulnerabilities (such as lack of access to necessary resources like healthcare and education) by preventing and reducing pollution . . . →Read More:Clean up Green up Campaign:Community Gathering in Boyle Heights! We here at PB have long been working on revitalizing the Pacoima Wash (a tributary of the LA River),making it into an open space resource for our community and environment. As such,we were delighted to see this great article in the LA Times,following river advocates on a kayak ride of the LA . . . →Read More:A Navigable LA River! | ||||
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