Hollywood : Plan to Clean Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce hopes a new program with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps will help remove the “5 o’clock shadow” of trash, dirt and graffiti on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame.
“There is a contractor paid by the city to clean these sidewalks in the early morning, but Hollywood Boulevard has such heavy foot traffic, by 5 p.m. it is dirty again,” said chamber President Larry Kaplan.
Under the one-year pilot program, set to begin Feb. 3, local children and a supervising team of Conservation Corps adults will clean up the street after school. Besides picking up trash, volunteers will clean grafitti and start a recycling program.
The Chamber of Commerce has donated $50,000 to the $135,000 program, with the rest coming from the corps.
An inaugural demonstration for the program by Conservation Corps members will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at 6689 Hollywood Blvd.
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