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Hello Street Cleaning, Goodbye Mosquitos

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October 15, 2020
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Helpful storytime with Boaz. So, today after many many months, street cleaning in L.A. is restarting. So move your cars or get a ticket. But you should be happy because of a big side effect that most of you aren’t aware of that’s happened.
Any of you getting eaten alive by mosquitos the last few months? Way worse then in the past? We certainly have, so I called the Vector Control department of the city. The guy came out to both our place and my parent’s home 2 miles away. The verdict? The mosquitos are breeding like crazy in the curb of the street where small puddles of water collect, and remain stagnant because there’s no street sweeping once a week. So all over the city the mosquitos are thriving because their breeding grounds are rarely disrupted!
So as annoying as it is to have to find that spot across the street and occasionally get a ticket, I’m happy to get the damn mosquitos under control again asap.
This has been a message paid for by the Hepners Against Bloodsuckers Foundation, which is in no way affiliated with the Hepners Against Vampires Foundation because vampires are cool and fang-shaming is wrong.


Boaz Hepner grew up in L.A. in Pico/Robertson and now lives here with his wife and baby girl. Thus, the neighborhood is very important to him. He helped clean up the area by adding the dozens of trash cans that can still be seen from Roxbury to La Cienega. When he is not working as Registered Nurse in Santa Monica, he can be found with his wife and daughter enjoying his passions: his multitude of friends, movies, poker and traveling.

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