We’ll head back to East Marginal and join We Heart Seattle and their Rotary group cleanup on Saturday. We’ll be working on the east side of the street starting by Hudson’s and spreading out in all directions.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We made great progress this past week with back-to-back ivy pulling events.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park beach and work around the bathrooms down by the ferry. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives that have taken over the area to open up the view and room for native plants.

We’ll head back under the 1st Ave Bridge and will keep clearing litter and overgrowth so this area becomes less of a magnet for dumping and hanging out. This will be an ongoing series for a while so we’ll pick a section and knock it out and then see what we’ll tackle next week.

We had a special request to Spruce up the River City Skatepark on Cloverdale and the 99 northbound onramp. We’ll work on picking up trash around the park and seeing where we can make upgrades, cutting back overgrowth and removing invasives.

We’ll be Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail South Park Connector to clear leaves and foliage growing out onto the trail and road. We’ll work on a stretch on the north end this week so will park down on the S. Trenton side of the Connector and work along 8th Ave S. between S. Trenton and S. Donovan.

We’ll be helping the neighborhood group Schmitz Park Creek Restore, remove trash, and pull ivy, holly and blackberry so that native plants and animals, including people, can flourish.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and help her dive into some ivy removal. This will likewise where we’ll be helping Schmitz Park Creek Restore on Saturday.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park beach and work around the bathrooms down by the ferry. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives that have taken over the area to open up the view and room for native plants.

We met with Mary last week under the bridge and will keep heading back till it’s looking ship shape. We’ll keep clearing litter and overgrowth so this area hopefully becomes less of a magnet for dumping and hanging out. This will be an ongoing series for awhile.

We’ll be Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail South Park Connector to clear leaves and foliage growing out onto the trail. We’ll be cutting back brambles, scraping the trail and limbing low hanging branches.

A neighbor reached out about doing a cleanup around the Louisa Boren STEM School, the surrounding neighborhoods and Longfellow Creek Trails. This will be a great, walkable event, kid & family friendly, and will make a big difference for this well traveled neighborhood.

We’ll be helping the neighborhood group Schmitz Park Creek Restore, remove trash, and pull ivy, holly and blackberry so that native plants and animals, including people, can flourish. This will be the first of many Sprucing events in the coming years helping the group to restore the park and creek.

We've cleaned up 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.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park beach and work around the bathrooms down by the ferry. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives that have taken over the area to open up the view and room for native plants.

We first hit this area a few weeks back with Jeremy as we were supposed to be working the bike trail. We’ll start back up there with Mary this week and keep clearing litter and overgrowth so this area hopefully becomes less of a magnet for dumping and hanging out.

We’ll head back to East Marginal and finish up what we started last week along the train tracks. There’s also quite a bit of illegal dumping right at S. Hudson St, so we’ll just park down that way and walk north.

We’ll continue Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail down by the transfer station. We’ll start at S. Holden Street which is basically right across 99 from the dump, from there we’ll follow the trail down S. Portland St. and see how far we get.

We’ll be helping the neighborhood group Schmitz Park Creek Restore, remove trash, and pull ivy, holly and blackberry so that native plants and animals, including people, can flourish. This will be the first of many Sprucing events in the coming years helping the group to restore the park and creek.

We’ll head back to the Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and play it by ear as far as where we’ll go, though we’ll likely head down into the woods as the weather looks nice this week.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park beach and work around the bathrooms down by the ferry. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives that have taken over the area to open up the view and room for native plants.

We’ll head back to help Mary at the 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.

We’ll be Sprucing along the Duwamish Trail South Park Connector to clear leaves and foliage growing out onto the trail. We’ll be cutting back brambles, scraping the trail and limbing low hanging branches.

Genesee Hill Elementary School reached out about a Block Drop cleanup at Lincoln Park on MLK Jr. Day. We’ll set up for the kids on the south parking lot, closest to the ferry dock, and anyone is welcome to join.

While the kids work on trash in the park we’ll plan on continuing the beach Sprucing work that we’ve been doing at the bottom of the road closest to the ferry.

We’ll head back down to Lincoln Park and work along the beach at the very south end entrance closest to the ferry dock. We’ll continue on the blackberry brambles and other invasives taking over the shoreline to open up the view and room for native plants.

We’ll head back to help Mary at the 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.

We’ve been helping Jeremy with a cleanup along the Duwamish Trail and look to do another section this week, this time we’ll start down under the First Avenue Bridge off of Highland Park Way which will more or less complete the West Seattle section of the trail all the way to the WS Bridge.

A neighbor reached out about the hillside behind the 35th & Avalon bus stop which is trashed again, we'll do an impromptu cleanup tomorrow at 9am for anyone who wants to hop out for a quick one. Maybe some sprucing work too taking out ivy and brambles on the hill that catch all the trash and make it hard to collect.

We’ll be helping the neighborhood group Schmitz Park Creek Restore, pull ivy, holly and blackberry so that native plants and animals, including people, can flourish. This will be the first of many Sprucing events in the coming years helping the group to restore the park and creek.

We’ll head back to the Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and play it by ear as far as where we’ll go. If it rains all week we may stay up on the top level, otherwise we can venture down to the bottom of the trail and keep ringing trees and working on ground ivy.