Earth Day clean up is sponsored by the Wallingford Community Council and City Fruit. We will be picking up trash, cutting tall weeds, digging weed roots and grass come rain or shine. Wear long pants and work shoes and bring work gloves. If you have tools please bring them but we will have extras to share.
CHOOSE FROM TWO MEETING TIMES AND LOCATIONS
Option #1: Clean up and weeding with City Fruit
- When – 11 am – 2 pm, Sunday April 22nd
- Where – Meet at 2400 N Northlake Way, between Waterways Cruises and the Sunnyside Boat Ramp and we will work to clean up and weed between Sunnyside and Waterway 19.
Option #2: Clean up with the Wallingford Community Council’s Shorelines Committee
- When – 2 pm – 4 pm, Sunday April 22nd
- Where – Meet where the Burke Gilman Trail intersects with Stone Way, in the parking lot area by Solsticio at N. 34th Street. We will start by cleaning up Waterway 22 and then work our way east toward Waterway 15 which is just to the west of Ivar’s at NE Northlake Way and 4th Avenue NE. We may even stop into Ivar’s after our work for some refreshments.
Wallingford’s public waterways are wonderful features of our community and the Wallingford Community Council has made access to the public waterways a key action item. Keeping the areas along them clean helps to improve shoreline habitats and makes them more enjoyable for all of us, as well as it helps to keep garbage and trash from washing into Lake Union.
Couple ??s please: 1.) is anyone doing cleanup in Gasworks Park itself? 2.) Has anyone a solution re the green lime bikes which are in lake just south of the concrete viewing area( unofficially used by skateboarders )? 3.) Anyone contacted Solsticio’s or Ivar’s for donated coffee?
maybe some of our new neighbors at the “camp” can chip in and pay it forward?
Doing litter patrols in the area is part of what they always do. They sign up for jobs as part of living in the camp, and that’s one of them.
Not to say they shouldn’t also participate in this clean-up, but mentioning this, because it’s more than most of our housed-in-homes neighbors do.
Is it what they always do, or what they say they always do? The garbage around the Ballard camp came and went in waves…sometimes overloads of the dumpsters and needles, sometimes not. Down the street, at the unauthorized encampment populated in part by folks banned from the shed village, the city put in a dumpster that met with infrequent embrace. I hope your experience is better and everyone has learned how to better get along.
I went down there on Saturday and chatted with them about this. First, they said they would absolutely be willing to volunteer for the Earth Day cleanup, but they had no idea it was going on. Remember: they don’t have computers or wifi at the camp, and likely do not read the blog. If nobody tells them about a clean-up event, you can’t really expect them to show up, right? It would be nice if they went out and sought opportunities to volunteer, sure, but remember: there are reasons they’re homeless. If they had all the skills, resources, life-training, habits and background as you, they probably wouldn’t be where they are.
The people there said that camp residents had recently cleaned up the steps leading up to the Burke Gilman and the parking lot just south of the camp. It sounded like it was done as a make-up for having failed to perform some other camp duty. Again, if you took a poll of most people in Wallingford and asked “when was the last time you picked up litter on the street”, the vast, vast majority would say “never”.
Let’s be sure not to confuse the results of the unauthorized encampments (such as the one in the NE 40th St strip) with the Nickelsville encampment. The expectations and circumstances are different.
Sure. OK.
Hold on. After years of mywriting to Seattle Public Libraries asking that one of the Green Lake, UW, Fremont or no books Wallingford libraries could be open on Fridays.. we get a great announcement– one will be open on Fridays. The Univesity Public Library was selected to be open on Fridays to provide computers an dinternet access for the homeless populati9on. They have some internet connections. The Solid Ground building has computers in the welcome center and the library.
Cathy!!! And with an exciting new name!
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Join us on Sunday! I’ll be leading the cleanup effort (trash or green stuff). 11 am – 2 pm. Come see all of the fruit trees that City Fruit has planted over the years: apples, pears, plums, persimmons, quince, pluots, cherries. Also some crazy grafting – 17 varieties of apples on one tree, a hawthorn tree converted to a pear. Meet on Northlake near Sunnyside.
Couple ??s please: 1.) is anyone doing cleanup in Gasworks Park itself? 2.) Has anyone a solution re the green lime bikes which are in lake just south of the concrete viewing area( unofficially used by skateboarders )? 3.) Anyone contacted Solsticio’s or Ivar’s for donated coffee? ?/ I did not complain. Most people did not reply. If you need volunteers or are heading up one of these groups.. maybe you can answer ??s
1) No, not tomorrow. 2) I don’t. I found a Lime Bike in the blackberries on Northlake yesterday and we’ll take it out tomorrow and put it on the sidewalk.. 3) I bring drinking water to work parties, no coffee, so I don’t know anything about having coffee for volunteers. We did have free cupcakes and iced lattes on Thursday with Cupcake Royale volunteers which I admit was fun. ?/ I like what the sign says. I really like the people I meet volunteering. We really, really like to get things done!.
Happy to report that we had 25 volunteers during the 11;00 cleanup event on Earth Day, including two family groups with three children. They collected several bags of garbage and recycling, dug up two huge piles of weeds and blackberry roots, and pruned four fruit trees. The afternoon group had about a dozen volunteers focusing on trash pickup.