{"id":273164,"date":"2026-04-17T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:09:09","slug":"2500-volunteers-cant-wait-to-make-fresno-sparkle-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273164\/","title":{"rendered":"2,500 Volunteers Can&#8217;t Wait to Make Fresno Sparkle on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere you look Saturday morning, you\u2019re bound to see Fresno residents cleaning up their city.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Beautify Fresno\u2019s annual spring-cleaning blitz will encompass 25 individual cleanup and beautification projects across the city.<\/p>\n<p>And when the dirty work is done and the work gloves are put away, there will be a thank you party in the Fresno Grizzlies parking lot on H Street downtown from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The celebration will include food trucks, music, and youth activities for the expected 2,500 volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Greatest American Cleanup is part of Mayor Jerry Dyer\u2019s year-long celebration honoring Fresno and America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the projects volunteers will tackle Saturday is planting trees at the Jensen Avenue interchange on Highway 41. This project is being overseen by Caltrans and Tree Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the beautification initiative took on 20 projects, with 1,100 volunteers removing 15,200 pounds of trash.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We don\u2019t always see the impact right away\u2026 but every act of care leaves a mark.<\/p>\n<p>Small actions ripple out into a cleaner, greener, more beautiful world. \ud83c\udf0e<\/p>\n<p>Together, we can <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DoBeautifulThings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#DoBeautifulThings<\/a>! Join the movement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHGOrpeACt\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/wHGOrpeACt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreatestAmericanCleanup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GreatestAmericanCleanup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/America250?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#America250<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1eZVbCF5C4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1eZVbCF5C4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keep America Beautiful\u00ae (@kabtweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kabtweet\/status\/1970956704159355335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everywhere you look Saturday morning, you\u2019re bound to see Fresno residents cleaning up their city. That\u2019s because Beautify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-273164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}