FOCUS: ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY NEWS : FOUNTAIN VALLEY
City workers and Boy Scouts found more than junk waiting for them at Saturday’s city-sponsored cleanup of the La Colonia Juarez neighborhood: They were treated to a feast of homemade tacos, rice, beans and salad.
“We started cooking at the crack of dawn,” resident Rose Luna, 63, said. “It’s a thank-you to all the guys who worked so hard.”
For the men and 10 Boy Scouts from Troop No. 140 in Lakewood who labored all morning in the hot sun, the meal waiting for them in Colony Park was a welcome sight.
The cleanup was part of the city’s Neighborhood Improvement and Community Enhancement Program.
By the end of the day, more than 83 tons of old farm equipment, inoperative cars and garbage were hauled away.
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