My Saturday clean up 6/3/17

We have been doing cleanups every Saturday at different spots around town. The hook for the kids is brownies and ice cream (bribery? heck yeah!) and today we met in front of the gas station.

But let me begin at the beginning:


I went to the restaurant at the beach with my amore, after I jogged at about 7 am.


THE PLAYA











Breakfast at the Cabaña Restaurant - be sure to order the HUEVOS RANCHEROS and be sure that Jose is there to supervise!







From there, I changed and went to the scheduled clean up which I organize every weekend and which I have named UNA BOCANA MAS LIMPIA project (a cleaner La Bocana).




Here is Taori, such a cool kid.



TAORI




Here is yours truly.


ME CLEANING





and look at the difference.....a ma zing.


CLEAN BUSH




and the junior high kids who came to help.



2 GIRLS





GROUP




Look how clean they left this arroyo! Unfortunately, this arroyo has to be de-trashed at least twice a month as folks tend to throw trash in it.








Came home after giving the kids brownies and buying them at ice cream. My great friend Dave came by for lunch. He is a sponsor for 3 of the college kids - pays tuition for two and the rent for another. God bless this guy and all the other angels who help me with brownie mix, school supplies, trash bags and of course the ever needed tuition/rent sponsorships.

He also owns a winery with EXCELLENT wines if anyone is a wine connoisseur - PESCATORE - which means fishermen in Italian. Gotta be good, right?

Blanca,
You do such good work for your community...

thanks all! I invite you all to come and join me any Saturday

@aguachico - I love that the cop pulled the girl over in TJ! Truly a change.

Great idea about the sign in the arroyo SF and H. I will get to work on that! Tell me why I did not think of that sooner

We do have trash pickup although it is erratic. Driver gets sick, no pickup. Truck breaks down, no pickup. Workers aren't paid, that is a no brainer, for sure no pickup.

@bornfisher - When you come for the huevos rancheros, call us so we can join you! landline 615 156-0056.


I have photos of La Bocana when I first started these clean ups so many years ago and the difference is striking. Few people don't handle their trash properly nowadays, but these few sure makes a mess.

Funny story: a group of very young folk from TJ came to the high school a month ago to do a presentation on taking care of the environment, especially reducing use of plastic. Even though I don't teach at the high school, the principal called me up and asked me to participate in the visiting group's documentary. It was fun to commend them for inspiring young adults to take better care of Mexico and to be filmed talking about my dream for a clean Baja and for better landfills.

Look what I just read - Antonio's desert falcons ambulance service did a clean up in the NORTHERN La Bocana near El Rosario. There was some event and the trash left over was horrible, so they went and cleaned up. What a group!


http://www.elvigia.net/el-valle/2013/9/14/halcones-hacen-cam...


and here is the website I created years ago- notice that David (the same guy who is now helping to sponsor college students) is in there! It was the first time he came to stay in our town and I hauled him off to clean up with me. I swear, only I would do that!!

https://sites.google.com/site/cleaningupbaja/

Thanks all for the nice words. If you come visit, please bring me brownie mix. I am a legend in La Bocana since there is no brownie mix here and I tell them it is a secret recipe. the chocolate has to come from far away ... which isn't too bad a fib, is it?