More than 75 local high school students and about a dozen community volunteers gathered this weekend to help beautify Chollas Creek Park and Hawk Project Park in a cleanup effort led by the Urban Collaborative Project, the Harvey Family Foundation, and partners including I Love a Clean San Diego, who organizes the annual Coastal Cleanup Day, San Diego’s largest single-day environmental cleanup effort in and around San Diego County.

“This cleanup is long overdue,” said Barry Pollard, CEO of the Urban Collaborative Project. “It’s good to see the residents coming up. You know, there’s kids that are cleaning up, and that’s what it needs. I want this to be more frequent. If at all possible, bring yourselves out here and help.”

The event marked the first community cleanup for the group in the

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