FoLAR' (Friends of the LA River) annual river cleanup, La Grand Limpieza.
(Left to right) State Assemblyman Kevin De Len, City Councilman Tom LaBonge, State Assemblyman Paul Krekorian and City Councilman Ed Reyes. FoLAR' (Friends of the LA River) annual river cleanup, La Gran Limpieza, was held May 9, 2009. Thousands of volunteers at 14 sites pulled out accumlated trash, mostly plastic bags, from river runoff that might normally find it's way downstream into the Pacific Ocean.