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.

This will be our fourth visit into a newly adopted forest steward parcel in Schmitz Park off Stevens Street. We'll be working in an area that we cleared of dense blackberry growth on the One Seattle Day of Service. This visit we'll go after the roots we left behind and continue working towards connecting to the first plot we cleared of an abandoned camp at the beginning of the year.

We’ll do an initial cleanup and scouting of the Walking on Logs sculpture area coming up the hill from the WS Bridge. This will be a coordinated cleanup with input from the WS Chamber of Commerce who oversees its maintenance, and the Rotary Club of West Seattle that has an interest in its upkeep.

We're shifting back to Fidalgo Street End Park this week which we visited just over a year ago with Mary. This is a tiny little park on the east side of the Duwamish right next to the bottling plant, so there’s lots of interesting glass strewn about, including used as trail material in the park.

Join us for a back-to-school Sprucing event at Madison Middle School, requested by Madison’s PTA—all community members are welcomed to come give this neighborhood gem some love.

We'll drop back in along Alki Trail and continue south down the fence line where we’ve been opening up the foliage since last year, creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming expanse along the bike path. There will be trash collection and Sprucing opportunities here continuing to address blackberry, weed overgrowth and raising the under-canopy a bit for better lines of sight.

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.

We’ll switch up our Parks & Rec day this week and visit Roxhill Park to do a cleanup with Parks’ crew and then hang around afterwards for a walk thru of the park with Friends of Roxhill Park. There will be lots of garbage to collect and hopefully some conversations can be had in ways to remedy this ongoing problem area with folks who can make a difference.

We'll drop back in along Alki Trail and continue south down the fence line where we’ve been opening up the foliage since last year, creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming stretch along the bike path. There will be trash collection and Sprucing opportunities here continuing to address blackberry and weed growth We'll start just south of 7-11 where we left off last week.

Group member Alanna reached out about helping to Spruce a neighborhood stairwell, sidewalk and retaining wall at the end of her street. We’ll head out and see what we can get done in a first pass this coming weekend with neighbors.

We’ll head back down into the Greenspace on Friday and our volunteers will have the choice of working the south end of the stretch off Admiral with Heather where we’ve been working the past several months, or venture down deeper into the woods with Doug and look for trees to ring and ground ivy to pull. Either way you go it will be a beautiful day to be working in the woods.

Join us for a Thursday morning Sprucing of the Future Public Park and an art installation by West Seattle artist, neighbor, and friend Michael Henderson. You've undoubtedly seen his whimsical art installations and postings all around the community. Last week we cleared the fence line he wants to install along with the help of others.

We’ll head back to S. Oregon Street End Park which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a half mile or so. We did a good cleanup there last week and made it up to a grove of Madronas that need ringing to allow them to sing. Blackberry, ivy and other invasives abound as does trash picking opportunities.

We'll drop back in along Alki Trail and continue south down the fence line where we’ve been opening up the foliage since last year, creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming stretch along the bike path. There will be trash collection and Sprucing opportunities here continuing to address blackberry and weed growth We'll start just south of 7-11.

We were reached out to by the activities director at a Wallingford retirement home for a local cleanup event for 8-10 of their residents. We settled on Gas Works Park for this first outing and will provide a Block Drop type experience and supply the gear and take care of the collected trash.

Join us for a special back-to-school Sprucing event at Lafayette Elementary, requested by Lafayette’s PTA. We’ll be joined by students and their families, and all community members are welcomed to come out and give this neighborhood gem some love as well.

Join us on Saturday, August 16 in the Little Saigon neighborhood! We’ll meet at Hoa Mai Park and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together. No RSVP required, just show up and pitch in.

We’ll head back down into the Greenspace on Friday and our volunteers will have the choice of working the south end of the stretch off Admiral with Heather where we’ve been working the past several months, or venture down deeper into the woods with Doug and look for trees to ring and ground ivy to pull. Either way you go it will be a beautiful day to be working in the woods.

Join us for a Thursday morning Sprucing of the Future Public Park and an art installation by West Seattle artist, neighbor, and friend Michael Henderson. You've undoubtedly seen his whimsical art installations and postings all around the community and he's asked for a collaborative cleanup again and art installation this coming week. The more the merrier in this hopefully first in a series of collaborative efforts of improving our public spaces.

We’ll head back to S. Oregon Street End Park which is south of the West Seattle Bridge by a half mile or so. We did an initial cleanup there last year so will swing by and see what needs updating.

We'll drop back along Alki Trail and return to where we opened up the tree line last year creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming stretch along the bike path. There will be trash collection and Sprucing opportunities here continuing to address blackberry and weed regrowth, tho nowhere near as thick as last year.

Join us on Saturday, August 9 in the Othello neighborhood. We’ll be helping get the park and the neighborhood ready for the Othello Park International Festival the next day!

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.

We’ll team up with Parks gardeners to spruce up planting beds between the Bathhouse and the bike path this coming week. We’ll weed out invasives, and have an opportunity to plant some ornamentals too. Let’s help make Alki shine!

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.

This will be our third visit into a newly adopted forest steward parcel in Schmitz Park. We'll be working in an area that we cleared of dense blackberry growth on the One Seattle Day of Service.

This week we’ll head back down to the pass-thru area between The Chelan Cafe and the Skylark on Delridge Way. 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 in the triangle area and sidewalk.

We'll drop back along Alki Trail and return to where we opened up the tree line last year creating a brighter, safer and more welcoming stretch along the bike path.