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In May, the Department of Public Works Bureau of Sanitation hosted six citywide “Discover Recycling” open houses which provided yard tours, equipment demonstrations, information booths and recycling games. More than 3,200 residents attended to learn more about the city's recycling programs, with the support of more than 300 city employees that volunteered their weekat ends to give back to the communities they io n serve and conduct the open house program.
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munity beautification grant project, which is overseen by the Board of Public Works Office of Community Beautification. Since 1998, more than 800 community beautification projects have been completed throughout the city. The Office of Community Beautification makes available grants up to $10,000, through its annual competitive matching grant program, to community groups of five or more individuals that reside, work or take an interest in implementing a beautification project in the city. ■
In November, the Community Magnet Charter Elementary School’s new “lunch lounge” mural became the 800th completed com-
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In June, the Department of Public Works Stormwater Program joined the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education and the California Coastal Commission on Dockweiler State Beach with more than 2,400 children to participate in Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup activities. Thirteen Los Angeles area schools brought children to the beach to pick up litter and take part in the formation of an aerial art display depicting a gray whale spouting trash in a symbolic message for cleaner oceans and to protect marine life.
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