Great American Cleanup Made Riviera Beach a Greener Place!

RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA – Great American Cleanup Made Riviera Beach a Greener Place!

Every spring, volunteers nationwide join forces to clean up their community. We had 62 Riviera Beach residents and students that came out to participate on Saturday, April 17, 2021 from 8am-11am on this project.

“Riviera Beach CDC is so pleased to provide this modest donation to assist our local students in learning how to grow healthy, wholesome, organic food with their own hands.” said Annetta Jenkins, Executive Director. We want our young people to know how to utilize the local resources and grow their own gardens in their own backyards. The Riviera Beach CDC supports local programs such as these to bring education to the area and to our young leaders of tomorrow.

The event meetup was located at 928 7th Street and broke up the volunteers in teams of ten. Each team was assigned a different task for the project from landscaping to picking up trash along the streets of 4th-7th. The teams battled the hot sun and did a tremendous job cleaning up the 6 square mile area with 1600 pounds of debris.

Dr. Darlene Cruz stated, “The Great American Cleanup means coming out and assisting our city to help beautify our community in every way possible. This is needed on every street and our goal is to make our city as nice, clean, and as beautiful as possible.”

The landscaping teams tended to the beautification of two houses in the area. One team planted flowers and mulched the front and backyards of a house on 6th Street. The other team planted, mulched, and laid sod for a house on 7th Street. Both projects came out beautifully with our Ambassadors and the master gardener leading the efforts.

All Site Construction, Inc., was our main sponsor for this event and was onsite to help with the project. Ezra Saffold, the owner, his wife and son were all there to lend a helping hand to the community.

Volunteers at the end of the event left with a boxed lunch and students were able to earn valuable community service hours. In one afternoon, a small project gave a big impact to the people involved and to making Riviera Beach a greener place!