PHOTO GALLERY: Yosemite Rec Center Clean-Up

Some 80-100 volunteers responded to a call by the to help clean up the Yosemite Recreation Center where a jogger in his mid-40s was brutally assaulted by a group of young men on Wednesday night. Two suspects in the Feb. 2 attack have been arrested so far, and the LAPD as well as the General Services police have increased patrols in the area, which is notorious for graffiti. On Friday, officers from General Services detained and searched several youths for graffiti tagging tools and possession of drugs at the recreation center (see the photo below).

Saturday's volunteers weren't just from Eagle Rock but from as far as Sierra Madre, Alta Dena and Pasadena, said ERNC President Michael Larsen, a neighbor of the assaulted jogger who initially helped him after the attack, which occurred across the street from .

The volunteers "immediately got to work painting over or scrubbing off every bit of graffiti that we could find in the park," said Larsen. "It was a great turn out—we had a kindergarten teacher from with many of her students, the principal of Eagle Rock Elementary, Dr. [José] Posada, [Councilmember] and much of his hard working staff and many board members of the ERNC. We truly gave the park a new look and we hope that it will be a new start for it on many levels.