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2011
Bancroft Median Workday This year's volunteers at the OPC Bancroft Median Workday were so eager to get to work that they began showing
up even before the registration desk was open at 8:30. They helped themselves to delicious treats and donated drinks
from Gazalli's Grocery before being assigned to teams. By 9 am, armed with gloves, vests, pick-up-sticks, shovels, rakes and
wheelbarrows provided by Public Works, nine teams of youths and adults were sent out with their captains before 9am to
collect litter, weed, prune, and spread mulch from 73rd Avenue to 88th Avenue of the Bancroft Median.
By 12:30 pm the median looked almost as good
as when it was first landscaped about a decade ago. In the early part of the 20th century the Bancroft Median was a byway
for a trolley line which connected Oakland to neighboring cities. When the trolley line was removed a median was installed
and today, this broad, artfully landscaped median strip stretches for 30 blocks throught the Eastmont and Elmhurst sections
of Oakland. Thanks to the scores of volunteers for taking time out from their busy schedules to restore this Oakland asset
to its original beauty! They are helping to keep Oakland beautiful through difficult times.
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| OPC Registrations Team |
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| Captain Dale Hagen & YEP Team Oakland Members |
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| Donald Brooks, Mayor Quan & Hubby Floyd Huen |
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| Tzu Chi Volunteers |
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| Signing In |
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| Team Oakland Leader Gaylon Parsons and Volunteers |
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| Park Attendant Donald Wills, Park Attendant Marcus Henry, and Gardener Crew Leader Charles Gray |
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| PWA Supervisor Brian Carthan & Wife Cynthia on Busman's Holiday |
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| Tzu Chi TeamMembers |
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| Marilyn & Jamilla Lawson, Carl Anderson & Co. |
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| Tzu Chi Volunteers |
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| OPC Workday Chair Judy Johnson |
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| Volunteers and OPC Staffers Taking a Break |
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| OPC Team Captain Mike Udkow and BBBON's Barbara DeSalvo |
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| After the Cleanup |
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| After the Cleanup |
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| After the Cleanup |
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