More than 50 people from Pacific Gas & Electric, Watsonville Works and other groups hit the streets of Watsonville Thursday morning with a single target in mind: trash.
The three-hour community cleanup, headed up by Ramon Gomez, chief of staff for Supervisor Felipe Hernandez, fanned out around Salsipuedes Creek, Riverside Road, Bridge Street and East Lake Avenue in an ongoing drive to tidy up the area following floods that pulverized the region at the start of the year, Gomez said.
“We’re here to clean up our planet,” said Christina Ellsworth, environmental supervisor for PG&E. “We’re out here to serve our community that was so badly hit with the floods.”
There is lots of trash on Freedom Blvd where it meets Lincoln Street. Businesses there don’t pick up the trash on their own property. Glad someone actually cares. I live near a school where people illegally sell junk food from carts right under the sign posted that says it’s illegal to sell so close to schools. Then the kids who aren’t brought up to respect themselves throw all their trash on residents’ property. We pick up trash daily. I wish the lazy city officials would actually enforce the codes that are posted on signs. Otherwise it’s useless to even create city codes.