Events Calendar

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Upcoming Events


Alki Beach Cleanup
Dec
21

Alki Beach Cleanup

We received a special cleanup request from the Jewish Community at West Seattle Torah Learning Center for a morning clean along Alki. We’ll be set up at the Bathhouse / Statue of Liberty so come out and join your neighbors for a community cleanup. The WS TLC event will be from 10am to noon, but we’ll leave the station up all day.

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Spruced! / Constellation Park
Dec
20

Spruced! / Constellation Park

This week’s King Tides have floated lots of styrofoam beads up onto higher area of the beach, sidewalks and even into the street. We’ll use this timely opportunity to try and scoop up what we can.

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Cottage Grove – Recovery Garden
Dec
19

Cottage Grove – Recovery Garden

We'll head back to the Cottage Grove Recovery Garden to help Susanna, the garden’s steward, Spruce up the garden and the surrounding neighborhood. The past month we’ve have helped weed and then plant natives into the beds. We’ll focus on wrapping up the invasive removal and mulching this week.

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Diagonal Street End
Dec
18

Diagonal Street End

We’ll help Mary with the sbəq̓ʷaʔ (sbaqwah) Diagonal Ave Park and Shoreline Habitat which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a mile or so. It’s a cool park with a little cove for litter pickup and a little pocket park that we can Spruce and tidy up.

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Highland Park Way Trailhead
Dec
16

Highland Park Way Trailhead

We’re heading back to the trailhead along Highland Park Way where we did the big tire and illegal dumping cleanup over the Summer. We can do a general cleanup of the trailhead and get what appears to be abandoned camps.

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Duwamish Trail
Dec
16

Duwamish Trail

We've cleaned up at Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping. The cleanup will be in the cul-de-sac, under the WS Bridge and along the bike path and surrounding areas.

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Me-Kwa-Mooks
Dec
13

Me-Kwa-Mooks

We’ll head back to Me-Kwa-Mooks this week and help Bonnie put in new plants in the upper area of the park and work on more ivy removal. This will be a fun opportunity to be on the restoration side of helping out this beautiful park.

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Afternoon Spruce! / South Lake Union
Dec
12

Afternoon Spruce! / South Lake Union

Hi all, Matt is a group member who reached out about helping with some cleanups he's been doing with friends in South Lake Union. It's an interesting area that has lots of tech businesses, new apartment & condos, p-patches, parks, right alongside older, run-down buildings and lots of unhoused folks.

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Spokane St. Bike Path
Dec
11

Spokane St. Bike Path

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / Duwamish Trail
Dec
9

Spruced! / Duwamish Trail

We've cleaned up at Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping. The cleanup will be in the cul-de-sac, under the WS Bridge and along the bike path and surrounding areas.

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REI Run Club / Plogging Event
Dec
8

REI Run Club / Plogging Event

We'll supply REI's Run Club with gear for a Plogging (Jogging + Trash Picking) event around Lake Union starting at 10am by the pond behind the Center for Wooden Boats. Join us for a 5k or 10k course around the lake. Walkers also welcome!

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Forest Steward Friday
Dec
6

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and work on removing ivy and other invasives. Should be a fun one!

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Spruced! / Spokane St. Bike Path
Dec
4

Spruced! / Spokane St. Bike Path

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / Marginal Place
Dec
2

Spruced! / Marginal Place

We've cleaned up at Marginal Place multiple times over the past several years due to the high traffic from illegal dumping and wire stripping. The cleanup will be in the cul-de-sac, under the WS Bridge and along the bike path and surrounding areas.

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Spruced! / Spokane St. Bike Path
Nov
27

Spruced! / Spokane St. Bike Path

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
25

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks. Last week we kept clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. and continued around the corner pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Forest Steward Friday
Nov
22

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and help her plant natives that were delivered to the top area along Admiral. Fern, Snowberry, Osoberry and other varieties. Should be a fun one!

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Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach
Nov
21

Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. There are some blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline that will be great to clear up and open room for native plants.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Nov
20

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
19

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, last week we kept clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. and continue around the corner and keep pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach
Nov
18

Spruced! / WS Bridge Approach

We'll head back to the general area we’ve been working the past several weeks, last week we kept clearing the little nook under the Admiral offramp from the bridge at 30th Ave SW and Spokane/Harbor Ave. and continue around the corner and keep pulling clematis and blackberry off the ramp wall.

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Forest Steward Friday
Nov
15

Forest Steward Friday

We’ll drop back down into the Duwamish Head Greenspace this week with our forest steward Heather and help her plant natives that were delivered to the top area along Admiral. Fern, Snowberry, Osoberry and other varieties. Should be a fun one!

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Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach
Nov
14

Spruced! / Lincoln Park Beach

We’ll head down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. There are some blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline that will be great to clear up and open room for native plants to reestablish and flourish.

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Spruced! / Spokane Street Park
Nov
13

Spruced! / Spokane Street Park

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and continue down the bike path on that side of Spokane. We’ll be working on removing blackberry along the bike path and clearing trash.

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Past Events

Suggest a Cleanup

We’re good about keeping the opportunities flowing, but we’re also open to new ideas.

Have a hotspot you’d like to help tackle or an area we haven’t been to? Reach out with your ideas and we’ll see what we can do!

 

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