A group of seven people, fitted with blue vests, buckets and grabbers, stepped into a van Tuesday morning and headed to downtown Modesto for their first shift of the week.
Once there, the crew quickly split up to opposite sides of J Street, picking up trash with each step. One of them wheeled a bin for the others to periodically dump their buckets in, though the sidewalks were already pretty clean.
“I know it’s not a lot,” one worker said…