Volunteers Sharon Kilbride and Sara Marti get their hands dirty. Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
On Saturday, Oct. 14, 30 volunteers geared up with gloves and shovels to help clear out former homeless encampments left unoccupied in Temescal Canyon.
Sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness, Saturday’s community CLEANup participants cleared four out of 16 of the area’s abandoned campsites, filling a 40-foot rollaway metal container supplied by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
As seen with similar encampment cleanups in Pacific Palisades, the day’s haul included many commonly recovered items from camping stoves, clothing, sleeping bags and numerous empty bottles of prescription pills, to more peculiar findings like an old bee keeper’s box and a massive stargazer’s telescope.
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