Have you heard? Mountain View’s annual Community Clean-up starts May 5th. Tomorrow night, let’s go get dirty and help clean-up an Anchorage neighborhood. Check out the attachment for the full skinny on when and where!

After several weekends of cleaning-up around my own house, I feel like an expert in this area – so in preparation for your aid in Mountain View’s trash-be-gone efforts, here are my words of wisdom:

1. Carpe Diem: Seize the day. The weather’s nice this time of year, and picking up trash is a great way to enjoy the sunshine, get some exercise, and help your neighbors in need.
2. Don’t Let the Cat Get Your Tongue: Join the One for All clean-up crew, and make a few new friends while tidying the town! There’s no need to be shy, since people you meet at a trash clean-up are clearly good-hearted folk. Just in time for spring, it’s time to diversify your friend portfolio. 
3. The Show’s Not Over ‘til the Fat Lady Sings: This is no dietary comment. My point is, Mountain View’s neighborhood clean-up is sure to be a fun, hard-work PARTY! With cool people and a great cause, you’ll find entertainment – sans opera music (score). 
4. Love Your Neighbor as You Love Yourself: On Saturday, I came home after an afternoon of shopping to find MY neighbors finishing a trash pick-up along our street. What an awesome surprise! Now I’m going to pay this forward in Mountain View, and here’s hoping the chain continues.
5. Make Hay While the Sun Shines: I can’t predict the weather tomorrow, but I can predict this: The Mountain View clean-up is a sunshiny opportunity for social progress. The more effort we put in to keeping this neighborhood clean, the more pride its residents will take in maintaining it. Come “make hay” and produce positive change in our city.

WOW! I could keep going with my treasure chest of corny sayings, but instead I’ll hope you appreciate their meaningful messages and come join the One for All team tomorrow night. The clean-up starts at 7:30am, but our CU1 employee crew will be out there at 6:30pm (after work). Our meeting hot-spot is in the back (south) lot of Success By 6, at the Intersections of Mountain View and Commercial Drive. See you there!