Pelly Place planting: The video

September 19, 2007 at 9:49 pm | In Environment, West Seattle schools, West Seattle video | 2 Comments

Four clips from today’s event: First, the kids — from Gatewood Elementary, Denny Middle, and Chief Sealth HS, with EarthCorps assistants:

Here’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai assisting with one of the trees — this is what she’s famous for, if you aren’t familiar with her work; this online reference calls her the “Tree Woman of Kenya”:

Also at Pelly Place: King County Councilmember Dow Constantine. Our videographer asked him for a few words, and he reminded us he’s no stranger to ravine restoration:

Last but by no means least, part of the poetry performance by Gatewood Elementary students:

2 Comments

  1. It was an amazing event- the kids were awesome and the Sealth students did a wonderful job mentoring the younger students in planting. we got 80 native plants into the ground! Pelly Place is a beautiful pocket of forest and worth exploring if you have never been there. It was truly inspring to share this space with Wangari. A thanks goes out to the Green Seattle Partnership and all of the teachers, parents and neighbors of Pelly Place that helped make this event possible!

    EarthCorps holds many planting events-weekly- through the late fall and winter- check out our website to sign-up. I will be posting a spotlight on our website about this special event and will send in the link to WSB.
    Lina Rose
    Project Manager, EarthCorps

    Comment by Lina Rose — September 19, 07 11:49 pm #

  2. I think it’s really cool that the 3 schools worked together on this project. Way to go!

    Comment by add — September 20, 07 4:28 pm #

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