And since that declaration, with community members taking the lead, service projects continue to sprout.

Gary Schloh, a Los Gatos architect and member of the Lions Club, who is also a member of the town beautification committee, led the most recent one. Along with Schloh and his volunteers, three packs of scouts (both cub and boy), plus the Los Gatos High School's Interact Club and Key Club, the Raymond J. Fisher's Club Live and Help-A-Thon and the Los Gatos Rowing Club came together for a few hours of hard work.

"It was a Community Unity-originated event. About six months ago when we were looking for events, Gary said the trail needed to be cleaned up," Wasserman said.

About 80 people arrived at 9 a.m. on Feb. 11 to clean up the trail behind Forbes Mill. They brought their gloves and rakes to make a dent along Forbes Mill Trail. Green Valley Waste also offered a little bit of help, allowing the volunteers to dump the weeds and trash for free.

This is not the first cleanup event the town has seen, and certainly not by the scouts. Every two or three months, they perform a community service project. Two months ago, Boy Scout Pack 556 had about 20 volunteers join for a cleanup event.

But this time around, with more hands, they were able to see their hard work pay off.

"We cleaned up two or three drain culverts; we cut some trees that were blocking drains; we cut back poison oak and poison ivy," said Jim Hautz, assistant leader for Boy Scout Pack 556. "We absolutely made a dent in the trail."

Besides cleaning up the trail, there was another positive outcome of the event, Hautz said.

"All different groups from the community participated," Hautz said. "We usually get a pretty good turnout, but this was great."

The game plan was simple: Boy Scout Troop 556 and Cub Scout Pack 501 met at the Scouts Hut and worked south along the trail to Forbes Mill. Boy Scout Troop 539 and the volunteers led by Schloh met at Forbes Mill and worked their way north.

"A lot of kids were glad to see the progress of what they were doing," Hautz said. "They were pretty enthused."

The kids were given shovels and rakes, and together they pulled the weeds and then spread mulch over the area.

Looking back at the success of the event, Wasserman thinks it is wonderful to see the community coming together. But it won't stop with this event, Wasserman said.

An employee of Hewlett Packard contacted him to say she and 50 of her colleagues want to participate in a service project on March 15.

"It's just another way that Community Unity has snowballed," Wasserman said, "and to actually see it develop, it's great."