201905.04
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Orange County residents show their cities some love and care

by in News

The annual Love Our Cities campaign had a new participant this weekend, as residents in Yorba Linda joined the army of volunteers who headed out on Saturday, May 4, into several north Orange County cities to tackle dozens of community service projects.

  • Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign. Volunteers spread out and cleared brush, painted structures and cleaned up the center. Grace May, right, reacts after realizing she has leaned against fresh paint.
    in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Kassiey Salo, left, and her brother Lincoln, center and sister Kaitlin drag brush to a dumpster through the parking lot of the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign. Volunteers spread out and cleared brush, painted structures and cleaned up the center in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

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  • Graham Hyder, 3, concentrates on painting the gate to a horse arena as Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell drags freshly cut undrebrush to a dumpster as she and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Juliana Carr paints the inside of a hrose arena as Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Aaron Laitinen throws brush onto the dumpster as volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign. Volunteers spread out and cleared brush, painted structures and cleaned up the center in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Judson Hall, 2, pitches in along with several volunteers to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign. Volunteers spread out and cleared brush, painted structures and cleaned up the center.
    in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign. Volunteers spread out and cleared brush, painted structures and cleaned up the center. Ashley Lopez, left, Grace May, center, and Izzy Rodriguez, right, alll paint the entrance gate to the center in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

  • Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell drags brush up to a dumpster as she and several other volunteers got together to spruce up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center Saturday as part of the Love Our Cities campaign in Yorba Linda on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)

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In Yorba Linda, the biggest project was fixing up the Philip Paxton Equestrian Center.

Across the area there were groups of volunteers sprucing up schools and parks, helping nonprofits, even penning notes to the elderly.

Fullerton was the first Orange County city to join the Love Our Cities effort, in 2014. Since then, OC United has taken over organizing and helping behind the scenes as more cities joined.

OC United now lists Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, La Mirada, Orange, Placentia, Tustin and Yorba Linda among its participating cities, though not all held service days May 4.