Hey all, the Weglins are hosting another dinner at the West Seattle Eagles on Saturday October 25th at 5:30 with all proceeds benefitting A Cleaner Alki. You don’t have to be a member, so come on out for a group dinner and fellowship!

We’ll head back to the alley behind the Barton St. P-Patch to finish removing the blackberry overgrowth. Last week we probably got 75% of the material cut out and hauled off. This time we’ll remove the remaining brambles, go after the roots and find the edge of the concrete under the accumulated dirt to widen the alleyway.

We’ll head back to the new South Park Plaza where we joined Seattle Parks & Rec the past two weeks to clear weeds and overgrowth from the planting beds. We’ve moved through a good chunk of the large beds during those visits and we’ll continue that work this week removing invasives and trash.

This week we’ll head back down under the West Seattle bridge across from The Chelan Cafe to help Mary. There will be ample opportunities for trash collection under the bridge as well as along the perimeter of Nucor, the pass-thru area and along Delridge—with Sprucing opportunities under the bridge as well.

We’ll head back to the new South Park Plaza where we joined SPR last week to clear weeds and overgrowth from the planting beds. Last week we had a great group that moved through a good chunk of the large bed. We’ll continue that work this week removing invasives and trash.

We’ve been asked to keep 300+ West Seattle High School Sophomores busy while the rest of the student body are testing on Wednesday. I’ll be bringing all my cleanup gear and hopefully borrowing lots of rakes and yard waste bags from Adopt A Street to gather leaves.

This cleanup will be a continuation of our work under the west end of the Bridge. The area between the parking lot and Harbor Ave is the area we’ll focus on removing overgrowth cover and cleaning up any messes. There’s a camp under the bridge that we’ll remove as well if deemed abandoned, it looks that way.

We’ll meet forest steward Heather Scott at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park off Spokane St., and continue helping her dive into English ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with many large-scale ivy pulling events, and Heather is readying the area for new plants to go in the ground come November.

This cleanup will be a continuation of our work under the west end of the Bridge. The area between the parking lot and Harbor Ave is the area we’ll focus on removing overgrowth cover and cleaning up any mess in the parking lot and adjacent bike trail.

We have another Parks & Rec request to come out and help Spruce the new South Park Plaza, I’ve actually never been there myself so am looking forward to checking it out. While in the hood I’ll scout the lantern fish sculpture in the Junction as this could be a nice visit in the coming weeks as well.

We'll head back to the east side of S. Spokane St. to the little park that we started Sprucing last year and give it some love as fishing season starts to wind down. Depending on how it looks we could be trash picking and weeding there the whole time, or spreading out and working the bike path and surrounding environment.

We’ll return to Lincoln Park bluff for another trail widening cleanup. There are trail systems within the park that should be the width of an ambulance and some are more like walking trails so we’ll tag team with SPR to help out on this point of emphasis project. We’ve cleared almost the entire bluff fence.

We'll join the Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association on Sprucing up Nantes Park on Saturday from 10am-1pm. Come for as long as you'd like. We'll be working on weeding and spreading wood chips in this little pocket park right along Admiral Way which celebrates our sister city of Nantes, France.

We'll be back working the corner by the bike path where Harbor turns on to Spokane. We’ve basically completed the NE corner of the intersection along the bike path, but there’s lots to do on the other corners of the intersection as well as the approach to Admiral Way by Luna Park, so with enough hands we can get a ton done.

We’ll return to Lincoln Park bluff for another trail widening cleanup. There are trail systems within the park that should be the width of an ambulance and some are more like walking trails so we’ll tag team with SPR to help out on this point of emphasis project.

We’ll head back to Weather Watch Park with Mary this week and give it a Springtime Spruce. We reWe’ll head back to Weather Watch Park with Mary this week and give it a Fall Spruce. We removed a bulk of the overgrowth last Spring so we’ll see what has come back and needs taming.

We’ll return to Lincoln Park bluff for another trail widening cleanup. There are trail systems within the park that should be the width of an ambulance and some are more like walking trails so we’ll tag team with SPR to help out on this point of emphasis project.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Doug on Friday and see what needs to be done. We’ll likely head down over the edge from Admiral Way and work on pulling ivy deeper in the Greenspace. Of course working the perimeter of Admiral for trash is also a fruitful endeavor.

Tim from Parks called up to see if we could pivot to Lincoln Park this week for a special trail widening cleanup. Apparently there are trail systems within the park that should be the width of an ambulance and some are more like walking trails so we will tag team with SPR to help out on the project.

We'll be back working the corner on the bike path where Harbor turns on to Spokane. It’s actually much better there after two visits, but we’ll continue opening it up and giving better sight lines now from the sidewalk through to city views. There are two layers of fences here so we’ll work on clearing the outermost area and try to remove all the dense invasives, mostly English ivy, butterfly bush and Japanese knotweed.

We were reached out to by the activities director at a Wallingford retirement home for a local cleanup event for some of their active residents. Last time we cleaned up Gas Works Park with four of their residents, and this time we’ll head to Golden Gardens for our second outing.

Join us on Sun, Sept. 21 for a cleanup event in the Central District neighborhood. We’ll meet at Pratt Park and send teams out in all directions to beautify our streets, remove litter and build community together.

We'll be back working the blind corner on the bike path where Harbor turns on to Spokane. It’s actually much better there after our first visit last week, but we’ll continue opening it up and giving better sight lines through the intersection. There are two layers of fences here so we’ll work on clearing the outermost area and try to remove all the dense invasives, mostly English ivy, butterfly bush and Japanese knotweed.

We’ll help Parks & Rec again this week pulling Scotch Broom and other invasives up at Westcrest dog park, last week we started carving into the overgrown area around the playground parking lot so we’ll pick up where we left off. There will likely be lots of trash to pick up as well.

We're collaborating with Seattle Bike Network again on a Ship Canal park cleanup just off the bike trail behind Seattle Pacific University. We’ll help remove ivy and blackberry that hampers the water views from the park.

Group member Melissa reached out about doing another Docusign collab cleanup, this time in White Center after last Spring’s successful Georgetown Impact Week event. We’ll meet at Fresh Flours for an afternoon cleanup and spread out in all directions. There should be plenty of cleaning up to do, we hope to see you there!

We met Rachel at last week’s forest restoration project in Schmitz Park. It was a training run for her as she is holding her first Forest Steward cleanup this Friday over in Judkin’s Park. I’ll be making the 15 minute trek over, feel free to come join us as we help support her kickoff. This will be a first sweep through her parcel, so mostly blackberry removal tomorrow.

We’ll help Parks & Rec this week pulling Scotch Broom and other invasives up at Westcrest dog park, it’s a big park so we’ll have the opportunity to spread out and go where we want. There will likely be lots of trash to pick up as well. Lot’s of dogs will be running around too so we’ll be mindful of that.

By special request, I’ll be setting out a Block Drop station for Sonoma Biotherapeutics at 9am at the rose garden in Centennial Park within Myrtle Edwards, and will leave it out till 1pm. I thought after putting it out we could hold our own cleanup event during the back end of the Block Drop starting at 11am, walking the park and cleaning up the various coves and the park entry below the Olympic Sculpture Park.

We'll be back along the Alki Trail this week, but we’ll move all the way down to the bridge where there’s a dangerous blind corner where Harbor turns on to Spokane. The fence line is so densely overgrown that there’s no way to see who’s coming around the corner from either direction.