Beautifying Fresno one event at a time

Beautify Fresno is a bimonthly volunteer event that is put on by Mayor Jerry Dyer and Beautify Fresno to clean up the streets in the city of Fresno. People of all ages from little kids to people in their 60s ad 70s showed up and participated in the 89th annual Beautify Fresno event.

The AP students of Roosevelt High School pitched in to help clean up the neighborhoods around their school. A parent of one of the Roosevelt students, Amy Bogna, said the AP Coordinator for Roosevelt does a lot of work with Beautify Fresno.

“The coordinator for our AP program found out about this event,” Bogna said. “I think he does a lot of work with Beautify Fresno as part of his work with the bass fishing club on campus, and he knew this event was going on. He has a connection with the coordinator and thought it would be nice for our AP kids to get involved as a group.”

Often, during clean-up events, there tends to be a lack of volunteers. However, Dyer said this has not been the case with Beautify Fresno.

“The name has become a household name. Beautify Fresno, no matter where I go people know what Beautify Fresno is, and more and more people are signing up. We are having more events. We are having multiple events,” says Dyer.

Whether it was cigarette butts, batteries or candy wrappers that Roosevelt students picked up and threw away, Dyer, along with Beautify Fresno, is committed to making sure that seeing these items of trash and litter won’t be the norm moving forward.

“Taking care of these neighborhoods making sure that the norm is not seeing trash everywhere and not having neighborhoods that look like they have been forgotten or left behind, and that’s why we are here in southeast Fresno,” says Dyer.