Laurelton Operation Clean Up 2019

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Operation Clean Up Will be the 1st Exhibit highlighted at The Garden Of Resilience

Laurelton Operation Clean Up will begin it’s season on May 4th, 2019 and all community residents are invited to join.  The group will meet on the following dates:

 May 4th, 2019 – 8am to 12 noon

 June 8th, 2019 – 8am to 12 noon

 July 13th, 2019 – 8am to 12 noon

 August 10th, 2019 – 8am to 12 noon

 September 7th, 2019 – 8am to 2pm Recognition Ceremony

Laurelton Operation Clean Up will prioritize the following projects:

1.    May 2019 – The Laurelton medians/mallsat Francis Lewis (From Merrick Boulevard to 131stAvenue) and 135thAvenue from Laurelton Parkway to Francis Lewis Blvd. During these clean ups, we will be leafleting resident’s homes with flyers encouraging them to maintain their own malls and to enter the Laurelton Mall Beatification Contest.

2.    June 2019 – The Laurelton Community Garden of Resilience. We will work with DIVAS for Social Justice to program the space.

3.    July 2019 – Illegal Sign removal form key locations throughout the Laurelton community. We will canvass the neighborhood and make an inventory of locations where we will concentrate on the cleanup day and report the locations to 311.

4.   August 2019 – Merrick Boulevard from Springfield Boulevard to Laurelton parkway. We will remove garbage and debris from the sidewalks and the curbs. We will partner with Councilman Donovan Richards office who will lend us Wildcat and CEO to bag the garbage, and he will get the Department of Sanitation to conduction an educational outreach to the businesses.

5.   September – LIRR Station. We will remove the garbage and debris from around the station in preparation for the Fall.

 

For more information regarding Laurelton Operation Clean Up, please contact:

laureltonoperationcleanup@gmail.com

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Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.