I'm back in town for one day during my vacation break and Liz requested we hit the parking strip across the street from the Food Bank for a little tree bed cleanup, as we didn't have time to hit it last month.

Hey team, the parade is here again on Saturday, July 19th with an 11am start. We'll meet on 44th at 10:30am, last year we were down behind PCC at the end of the parade queue. We'll be bringing up the rear again and doing a cleanup of the route as we go.

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.

We’ll head back to Hamilton Viewpoint this week with Parks & Rec to continue the cleanup we started last month. This week we’ll work on bed Sprucing inside the circular drive, pulling blackberry, morning glory and weeds. It’s looking so much better after two recent visits and we’ll keep it up.

We'll head off the peninsula for a collaborative cleanup with the folks from Black Diamond in Fremont. This will be a Sprucing event along the Ship Canal Trail on the west side (under) the Fremont Bridge. We’ll help clear foliage off the trail and retaining wall, and open up some beautiful natives along the hillside. Trash picking will also be on tap.

Hi all, we're helping Keith & Mary unload some items from their storage unit in Tukwila on Tuesday to ready them for their upcoming move. A small group of us will pick up a few bulky items at their place in West Seattle at 9am and then head to Tukwila where others are welcome to come and help unpack their unit and transfer items to the loading dock.

Join us for One Seattle Day of Service as 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 can flourish in the park.

This will be our second day of back-to-back trips down into the Greenspace. Friday 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.

We’ll head down into Duwamish Head Greenspace on Thursday with 20-30 Coast Guard Cadets in port from eastern cities. We’ll likely be harnessing all this young, strong energy on ground ivy and opening up some large tracts of forest floor down around the Cathedral.

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. 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.

Join us on Saturday, July 5 in White Center! We’ll meet at Fresh Flours 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. This is a family friendly event, great for student service hours!

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with many large-scale ivy pulling events. This week we’ll help connect areas we’ve been working on and get roots off the ground.

We’ll be headed back to Hamilton Viewpoint this week with Parks & Rec to continue the cleanup we started last week. This week we’ll work on bed Sprucing inside the circular drive, pulling blackberry, morning glory and weeds. It will be good to give it some love before the Kid’s Parade on the 4th of July.

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. 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.

This is Ben’s first cleanup event in his new Forest Steward parcel in Pigeon Point Park, the event will focus on invasive blackberry removal, trail pruning, and mulch placement. Come out and join him on this inaugural Spruce!

We'll help Spruce up the planting beds along the West Seattle Food Bank on 35th & Morgan. We should have time to likewise trash collect and tidy up other needs as well.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with many large-scale ivy pulling events. This week we’ll help connect areas we’ve been working on and get roots off the ground.

We’ll be headed back to Hamilton Viewpoint this week with Parks & Rec for the first time since our multi visit cleanups last year. I know the beds need Sprucing again, but they should be in a much better place than when we first cleaned up last year.

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. 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.

Join us on Sunday, June 22 in the Lake City neighborhood! We’ll meet at the Akin Building and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with several large-scale ivy pulling events. This week we’ll help connect areas we were working on and get roots off the ground.

We’ll return to Seacrest Park again this week and move over to the other side of Marination where we first Spruced up last year. The massive cleanup we did then has surprisingly remained intact, so we can really concentrate on beautifying this week rather than starting with a huge overgrown mess.

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. If we get a decent sized crew this week we should be able to wrap up this project! We’ll cleanup the beds and have garbage picking opportunities as well.

Hi all, we're sadly losing our Beach Drive power couple to a move this coming month and want to bid them farewell with A Cleaner Alki sendoff worthy of such a lovely duo.

So come out and toast these two at La Chingona Taqueria on Avalon and send them off in style, and then we can start planning a trip to visit for a long weekend of cleanups in the Gopher State!

A group friend asked if we’d come and clean up along Highland Park Way which just got mowed this past week, and in turn shredded everything that was in it. A bunch of junk to pick up.

We’ll meet Heather at her dead end entrance into Schmitz Park and continue helping her dive into ivy removal. We’ve made great progress there this past year with several large-scale ivy pulling events. This week we’ll help connect areas we were working on and get roots off the ground.

So, our plans with Parks changed this week and I guess the MLK Park project got paused, we’ll shift back to Seacrest Park again and pick up where we left off last week. We’ll be working the area between Marination and Salty’s again on various park needs.

We'll join Mary back down on the fishing pier side of S. Spokane where we worked the bike trail last year Sprucing up the planting beds and the bike trail. Our work last year has made this swing through much easier. We’ll pick up garbage and clear overgrowth off the path.

Join us on Saturday, June 7 in the Mt. Baker neighborhood! We’ll meet at the Mt. Baker Light Rail Station and send teams out in all directions to remove litter, spruce up our streets and build community together.

We’ll head back to Duwamish Head Greenspace with Heather on Friday and continue with the perimeter trail around some Japanese Knotweed that the city will come and spray in the coming months. This will be down at the lower end of the Admiral stretch where we’ve worked the last several times in the Greenspace.