Line Bureau, La Cruz’s clean queen

Line Bureau, La Cruz’s clean queen (of Amigo’s de La Cruz‘s Environmental Program) – recycling, street beautification and street/arroyo clean-up.

If you see Line out at night she’s tres chic, always dressed lovely, smiling from ear to ear and kind, generous and supportive. By day, the latter remains true but Line gets down and dirty with a mission… clean the streets of La Cruz and teach others the merits of recycling and beautifying our town!

It’s more than a volunteer project for Line its a mission she’s passionate about; Giving back and doing good for others in La Cruz.

Line (pronounced Leena) Bureau; Environmental Chair, Amigos de La Cruz.

Living full-time in La Cruz, Line is originally from Quebec where she co-owned a wholesale and retail linen company. While most of us have a Spanglish way of communicating, the multi-lingual Line flavours her Spanish and English with French. Line directs the recycling program and the street beautification program and works with the Cetmar students (local vocational technical school for students ages 15-19) and corrals volunteers to help her with recycling.

Line inspires me with her commitment to keeping our town clean. When I asked her why she gives so much of her time and energy to ‘the cause’ she answered, “Working with Amigos de la Cruz gives me the chance to polish our precious pueblo, La Cruz. We do not want to change La Cruz just polish the Jewel; a precious stone. I admire everyone in Amigos de la Cruz and am so proud to be part of the team. Being on the ‘ground’ and talking with the people of La Cruz (nationals and others) I can tell you they love us and appreciate what we are doing.”

Line coordinated a cleanup plan with the military. She said, “They come just with love and a willingness to help. From the plaza we walked to the beach with the cadets, they were singing. We started by the ocean and cleaned for one and a half hours focusing on cleaning the arroyo (dry river) separating plastic from trash. As they were taking pictures I asked for one of their T-Shirts; laughing they said you have to earn it! So, I started walking like them through the village with bags full of trash back to the plaza.” Special thanks to Linda Ward for supplying garbage bags and to the Delta Group for teaching La Cruz’s new generation to keep our precious town clean.