4th Annual Community "Clean Sweep” Project

CLEAN SWEEP 2011
Saturday June 4th, from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.
School and Community Clean-Up.
Where: Various Eastside Schools.

Celebration and Award Ceremony
Awards, Food, Fun and Entertainment
When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Where: First Creek Middle School
1801 East 56th Street, Tacoma, WA

Educate our children about the positive impact they can have through community service. Create a fun, positive activity for our businesses, schools, community members, and children to particiipate in and get to know one another. Build partnerships among schools, businesses, and community members to help kepp our community clean.

David Whited from The Puyallup Tribe, Natalie Dam from Tacoma Eastside Action Membership and Helen Wilson from Green Thumb Community Garden

Celebration and Award Ceremony
Awards, Food, Fun and Entertainment

Burns Towing volunteered their business services.
Picking up a lot of the biggest trash and garbage

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For more information please contact Kate Frazier: Kfrazie@tacoma.k12.wa.us
Or at this late day, stop by one of the elememtary schools at 9:00 to help at.

Click here to download PDF Flyer

It's an easy day of picking up trash around the schools and neighborhoods, please join in an help make a difference.

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Policeman's Helmet - Non-Native PlantFirst Creek Watershed

Pictures of Policeman’s Helmet (Impatiens glandulifera). Taken in the First Creek in the Summer of 2010.

Policeman’s Helmet is a Non-native plant. It's an herbaceous annual plant growing from 3-10 feet tall and is shade tolerant. It likes to grow in moist forests and along streams and creeks. It is a Class B Noxious Weed, that is harmful to Pierce County and Washington State.









If you would like to volunteer to help make First Creek a healthier environment, please contact Dan Fear at (253) 304-2808. We will be having ongoing clean-up work parties and events throughout the Spring and Summer.
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New First Creek Signs

New signs identifying First Creek are now installed along East 34th and East Fairbank. These signs were created to show people driving through the neighborhood where First Creek is located.

A special thank you goes to Theresa Dusek from AHBL, Inc. for getting the signs made. Also to the City of Tacoma for installing them.





Earlier this year on Martin Luther King Day, over a hundred volunteers worked to clean up the areas along 34th and Fairbanks. They removed trash, English Ivy and blackberries. A few days ago volunteers returned to do additional work, today the area is looking really good and the way that it should look.

If you would like volunteer in the effort to make First Creek and community better, please contact Dan Fear at danfear@hotmail.com. Also, every first Wednesday of the month, First Creek Neighbors meet at the Portland Avenue Community Center at 6:30 for their mouthly meeting.
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