High-climbing cleanup in Fairmount Ravine

March 15, 2008 at 3:52 pm | In Neighborhoods, West Seattle news | 5 Comments

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“Be sure to get a picture of the teenagers!” we were told, shortly after we showed up to check on this morning’s Fairmount Ravine cleanup under the Admiral/Fairmount bridge. Here’s a wider perspective shot to show you how high up they went to help with the cleanup:

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And that was just the team under the bridge’s east end – more cleanup volunteers were up under its west end:

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We weren’t brave enough to get any closer than street level, where John Lang — who’s lived near the ravine for 19 years — told us about 10 people showed up to help with the annual cleanup, but more work might have to be done next weekend. Neighbors have been doing this every year since 1993, and tend to find unusual items like this car door:

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John said they pulled some ivy too – a problem about on the magnitude with the graffiti you see all over the concrete under the bridge, which is a magnet for not only vandalism, but also drinking, resulting in the debris that filled dozens of blue bags today. But the volunteers were in good spirits when we dropped by – and also thankful for free beverages and treats, donated by Tully’s and Metropolitan Market.

5 Comments

  1. Thanks for pointing out such a cool thing teenagers are doing. Sometimes they get a bad rap in light of all the vandalism/burglary reported lately. And thank you to all the volunteers. I live no where near, but one act inspires another.

    Comment by JT — 4:26 pm March 15, 2008 #

  2. Yeah teenagers usually suck don’t they? I for one believe we need to force them to volunteer much more often

    Comment by J — 5:35 pm March 15, 2008 #

  3. There’s a certain number of community service hours required of WS high school students as part of the graduation requirements, but I don’t see many examples of teen community service such as captured by today’s ravine cleanup photos.

    Good for the ravine cleanup team! Does anybody know what other good things WS high schoolers do to meet their community service graduation requirements? Just curious…

    Comment by RH_ — 6:17 pm March 15, 2008 #

  4. I was wondering where my car door went! :P

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    Pats on the back to the teens and other volunteers!

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    Mike

    Comment by miws — 6:25 pm March 15, 2008 #

  5. Does anybody know what other good things WS high schoolers do to meet their community service graduation requirements? Just curious

    There’s usually a lot of teenagers at the Nature Consortium work parties.

    Comment by G. Williams — 10:27 pm March 17, 2008 #

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