Photo from randomly selected Elks Lodge function.
I caught this article out of the San Jose, California Mercury News. The part that caught my attention is that there is a group of folks from local Elks Lodges (you know it’s on when the Elks are on the case) that have taken to calling themselves the “Groundwerx Crew”. Wha? Why? Groundwerx??? That sounds like something parents would try to call themselves to sound like they’re down. It’s like naming something “XTreme”. It ain’t cutting it. Did they try to name themselves what they thought sounded like a gang in order to clean up tagging? Odd. Why’d they even name themselves? Maybe I missed something. Wack.
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The air in the Santa Clara Valley has been ugly this summer because of the recent wildfires, but things aren’t looking too good at ground level, either.
Carlo Pedron leads a crew of volunteers from the Santa Clara and San Jose Elks lodges on highway cleanups every month, and he’s noticed more trash than usual on Highway 85.
“What is happening at the outset of summer? The Highway 17 south on-ramp to Highway 85 south looks like a garbage dump,” he said.
And while the Groundwerx crew has been doing a great job of keeping downtown San Jose’s core clean, there seems to be a lot more graffiti popping up on buildings and light poles in the greater downtown area.
I’ve even noticed a disturbing new version: Somebody’s using paint to splatter their tags onto sidewalks and streets.
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