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News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA

Todd Hits Marina Freeway Entrance

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Todd is in the orange. Hard to take photo with moving cars and horns beeping.

Todd the Volunteer hits again and what a difference.  Todd can be found wherever one sees a pile or row of black bags filled with debris.

Shown are bags at the 91 freeway entrance from Lincoln to Mindanao Way. They will be picked up. He cleaned up around Abbot Kinney recently. He cleans from sidewalk to street.

Todd Olin is homeless and makes his money from contributions at his Todd@gofundme.com.  He was in the Orange County area and decided to come to the Venice … where he is obviously needed.  He just picks an area and cleans it.

Todd the Volunteer Cleans Up

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Bags of debris stacked on Abbot Kinney at Washington Blvd.

An enterprising young man named Todd Olin stopped in the Venice area to do his thing this week. And his thing is to clean an area of all kinds of debris from the street to the fence. The bags above were from one days work in the Abbot Kinney – Presidents’ Row areas.

He is homeless but works. He created his job.

He has been all over. His web site says he was in Anaheim, Buena Park and Fullerton for the last 14 months. He calls himself “Todd the Volunteer” and his web site says he has made a little over $14,000 in the last 27 months with gofundme. He wrote that he worried about people stopping and giving him money. He thought they might have an accident or cause one, so he started the fund raiser web site. To contribute it is Todd@gofundme.com

Update tried to find him Thursday to get information from him but he couldn’t be found.

He has been homeless for two years and has always done manual labor according to the Orange County Register. They wrote: He picks up trash, trims bushes, scrubs sidewalks, removes graffiti, clears gutters. Public works crews or residents haul away the dozens of trash bags he fills. People give him food, cleaning supplies, clothing and small amounts of cash. He even received an award from the Garden Grove community for his services.