Mark your calendars for April 24th. Our neighborhood and others on the Eastside of Tacoma are planning a major effort to clean-up our streets and open space areas to make our communities better.
Help us clean up your neighborhood!
What’s this clean up all about?
The City of Tacoma, The Puyallup Tribe and several neighborhood groups in your area are joining forces to clean up our community because clean neighborhoods are safer neighborhoods.
April 24, 2010 – 1 day only! 10 AM to 2 PM
Where you can bring your junk:
• Parking lot behind the Tribal Administration Building (behind 3009 Portland Avenue)
Who Can Participate?
Those who live in a single family home or duplex between I-5 and 38th Street between Thompson Avenue and the east City limits (bring a driver’s license or utility bill to show for proof of residence) and members of the Native American community of the Puyallup Reservation (please bring your Tribal ID).
Volunteers may be available to help you unload your items, but please be aware that you offload at your own risk. A flyer with additional information will most likely be delivered to your doorstep or you can read more about it in forthcoming issues of the Puyallup Tribal News and or Tacoma Weekly.
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Anyone interested in helping to make the lower portion of First Creek better, please join us on April 24th. We'll be meeting at First Creek and Fairbanks at 10:00 am and working until 1:00. The focus will be on removing non-native and invasive plants (mostly Ivy) in several key areas of the creek near Fairbanks. We'll also be doing some light clean-up. A variety of tasks will be available from easy to moderate so everyone can participate. Work boots required, dress for the weather, and if you have tools for removing Ivy please bring them. Some tools and gloves will be available if needed. Please join us in making First Creek, the environment and the community better, contact Dan Fear at 253 304-2808 or email him at danfear@hotmail.com if you can participate.
Good news, we just learned that 30 volunteers, teenagers to young adults will be helping us on April 24th. Thank you "World Vision" for making this happen. More on this later. Be sure to contact Dan Fear at 253 304-2808 if you're interested, we could use some crew leaders if you have experience leading.
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The Environmental Science Club at First Creek Middle School and UWT, along with the Pierce County Stream Team will be planting 275 Native Plants behind the new middle school on the same day (April 24th). From 9-10 am there will educational information on display in the lunch room of First Creek Middle School, so you can learn more about the creek and your environment. If you want to help plant plants, you should plan on joining them. They will also be removing some Ivy from trees around the school.
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Please plan on joining one of the efforts to make our neighborhood and the environment around First Creek better. More information and additional contact numbers will be added soon.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
2010 First Creek Watershed
Winter & Spring Volunteer Events
First Creek Watershed
Community Event and Clean-up Schedule for 2010
March 6th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at Fairbanks and First Creek – Ivy Removal
March 13th Exploration, Plant and Wildlife Survey 10 to 1
Meet at East T and East Columbia Street – This event will be focusing on surveying what's in First Creek Watershed. Please contact Theresa Dusek at 253 861-3355 for additional information about this event.
April 10th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at Fairbanks and First Creek – Liter Clean-up and Ivy Removal
April 24th Major Clean-up 10 to 1 City and Puyallup Tribe. This will be our biggest and the major Clean-up effort for the Spring. On this day, we'll have three main events, 1) First Creek Middle School Students along with UWT Students, will be planting Native Plants 2) We'll be cleaning up our streets and neighborhood 3) We'll be removing envasive plansts (Ivy) in the greenbelt and habitat areas. Event locations and project information posted later.
May 8th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at East 34th and East R Street – Liter Clean-up and Scots Broom removal
For additional information please contact: Dan Fear
at 253 304-2808, or email him at danfear@hotmail.com
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Community Event and Clean-up Schedule for 2010
March 6th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at Fairbanks and First Creek – Ivy Removal
March 13th Exploration, Plant and Wildlife Survey 10 to 1
Meet at East T and East Columbia Street – This event will be focusing on surveying what's in First Creek Watershed. Please contact Theresa Dusek at 253 861-3355 for additional information about this event.
April 10th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at Fairbanks and First Creek – Liter Clean-up and Ivy Removal
April 24th Major Clean-up 10 to 1 City and Puyallup Tribe. This will be our biggest and the major Clean-up effort for the Spring. On this day, we'll have three main events, 1) First Creek Middle School Students along with UWT Students, will be planting Native Plants 2) We'll be cleaning up our streets and neighborhood 3) We'll be removing envasive plansts (Ivy) in the greenbelt and habitat areas. Event locations and project information posted later.
May 8th General Clean-up 10 to 1
Meet at East 34th and East R Street – Liter Clean-up and Scots Broom removal
For additional information please contact: Dan Fear
at 253 304-2808, or email him at danfear@hotmail.com
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
First Creek Middle School - Marting Luther King Day
Community Work Party
Community clean-up schedule for Monday morning January 18th,
Martin Luther King Day.
The location is behind the new First Creek Middle School located off Portland Avenue near East 54th
Time: 9:30 - Noon. Look for an open gate near the Northern end of the school for parking, then walk around the back of the playfields towards the woods.
This event is being organized by First Creek Middle School and University of Washington Tacoma along with Chris Ott with the City of Tacoma. First Creek Neighbors have been asked to support this event by helping with litter and trash pickup behind the school. Please try to attend if possible.
The First Creek Students will be working with the UWT students learning to cut English Ivy from the trees and doing some water quality monitoring in the actual creek. There are only twnety-eight trees with Ivy and they are easily accessed. If you have cutting tools please bring them.
Kathleen Merryman article in the January 9th issue of TNT.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/1021885.html
Link to First Creek Middle School
http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/departments/planningconstruction/Pages/FirstCreekMiddleSchool.aspx
Please join us if possilbe.
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Martin Luther King Day.
The location is behind the new First Creek Middle School located off Portland Avenue near East 54th
Time: 9:30 - Noon. Look for an open gate near the Northern end of the school for parking, then walk around the back of the playfields towards the woods.
This event is being organized by First Creek Middle School and University of Washington Tacoma along with Chris Ott with the City of Tacoma. First Creek Neighbors have been asked to support this event by helping with litter and trash pickup behind the school. Please try to attend if possible.
The First Creek Students will be working with the UWT students learning to cut English Ivy from the trees and doing some water quality monitoring in the actual creek. There are only twnety-eight trees with Ivy and they are easily accessed. If you have cutting tools please bring them.
Kathleen Merryman article in the January 9th issue of TNT.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/1021885.html
Link to First Creek Middle School
http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/departments/planningconstruction/Pages/FirstCreekMiddleSchool.aspx
Please join us if possilbe.
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