This past Sunday we had about 25 volunteers show up and paint a section of the block wall on Mira Mesa Blvd. just east of Parkdale that has been neglected for decades. 
That was just the start of this ongoing project to beautify the streets of Mira Mesa and we definitely could use your help each week. The schedule is not set in stone, but at least for the next couple weeks we will need volunteers from 8am to 10am on Sunday mornings. The more volunteers we get, the faster we will get done. Grab your significant other and/or your older kids and get involved in your community. Here is a great article on why you should volunteer with other family members.
The Mira Mesa Town Council approved $1000 towards the paint for this project at their last meeting and Frazee Paint and Wallcovering on Miramar Road has graciously volunteered to supply us with more paint as the project rolls along.
Now if you really don’t have the time or the ability to paint, there are other things you could do to help out. One of the coolest things that happened this past Sunday was a man stopped by in his car (out of the blue) and dropped off a big box of donuts to the volunteers. He was practically in tears when he dropped them off as he thanked us for the work we were doing. Now that made everyone feel good!
Now there are close to 80,000 of us living in Mira Mesa these days. If just a small percentage of us can spare a couple hours now and then we can clean this community up in no time. Please… make your plans to volunteer and let’s make Mira Mesa a beautiful place to live in!
If you would like to see some more photos that were taken of last Sunday’s event, you can check them out on Ted Brengel’s website.
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March 28th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I’ve seen what you guys have done so far and it’s awesome.
But there’s lots of wall left, isn’t there? o.0
I’ll try to go to one of these if I can convince my friends to go.
Also, will there be someone who can sign our community service hours papers [since we’re high school students]?
April 27th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I would like more info on painting these walls so i could convince some of Scripps Ranch high Key Clubbers to come out and paint the walls!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
If you would like to “Adopt a Wall” you can go to Mira Mesa Town Council web-site at http://www.miramesatowncouncil.org and donate money. Each 5 gallon bucket costs $69.00 plus tax and covers approx. 75 feet. We have used almost $2,000 from Mira Mesa Town Council and 60 gallons of paint from Frazee.
If you want more information, please call Marv Miles at 619-993-8401
Marv Miles
Property Gallery
32 Years of Experience
June 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
We have a lot of Boy Scouts in Mira Mesa. They are always looking for service project. Also the high schoolers HAVE to do so many service project hours. I think it would be great to get these young people involved in making their neighborhood look better.
On that same thought lines, I thing the community should banned together to get these shopping carts out of our neighborhoods.I personally have pushed carts back to the store for ten blocks. I’ve approuched every store manager that I had seen carts for.They all gave me the same answer.”There’s a service that comes and picks them up. Well the service is not doing their job.I think if on a Saturday all Mira Mesa scouts (girl,cub and boy)rounded up these carts (under adult supervision)and retutned them to their store, our neightborhood would be a much cleaner looking place.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I am so happy to see the community come together to help beautify Mira Mesa - it has been neglected for so long. All the other communites such as Carmel Mountain and Rancho Bernardo have all this beautiful signage and flowers welcoming the public. When you come off the off ramp at 15 South to turn right onto Mira Mesa Blvd, all you see is scorched earth, weeds and trash - that should be one of the next projects. Also, our “Welcome to Mira Mesa” signs are falling apart - the stones are falling off - and need to be replaced. We finally got the banners last year and that was a nice touch. We need to keep the momentum going!
July 4th, 2008 at 7:47 am
I remember when Mira Mesa was nice, when I moved here in 1980. Now, there are way too many people and too many people that are very poor and unintelligent and don’t care about their neighborhood. Nice to see some people actually care! (yes, i have helped clean up Mira Mesa)
PS- I’m not calling out any race, gender, age, etc, etc…