Keep Oakland Beautiful: Allendale trash cans gets special treatment Saturday

Emilie Raguso Tue, 27 Apr at 1:06am
Photo courtesy of http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/656464.

Photo courtesy of http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/656464.

The Allendale Park neighborhood group in East Oakland will transform six garbage bins into works of art starting this weekend.

The group received a grant for the project from the "Keep Oakland Beautiful" campaign.

Members of the group will meet Saturday Apr. 3 to begin to snazz up the city of Oakland garbage cans, and everyone's invited.

There are two cans on 38th and Penniman avenues; two on 35th and Penniman avenues and two on 35th and Hageman avenues.

The focus this weekend, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be on the Penniman cans.

According to one group organizer, Tina Garcia-Szeto, Saturday will be "phase one" of the project: putting concrete on the trash containers. Next week, Apr. 10, the group will begin tiling the cans.

Garcia-Szeto said the group received $250 from Keep Oakland Beautiful. This was matched by donations from the Allendale Park Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council. Heath Ceramics, in Sausalito, also made a large donation of tiles to the project.

Learn more via the Allendale Park Yahoo Group.

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Emilie Raguso is a multimedia reporter in Oakland who focuses on issues of criminal justice, food and Oakland culture. She is passionate about social media, documentary photography and sustainable living. Her work has appeared on Salon and NPR, as well as in The Modesto Bee, Greater Good magazine and the East Bay Express. Write her at eraguso@gmail.com, follow her on Twitter (@emraguso) and see more of her work at http://raguso.us.