West Seattle scene: Roxhill Park cleanup

When Mayor Murray‘s Find It, Fix It Community Walk comes to the Westwood/Roxhill area next Monday (here’s the map and schedule), it will end at Roxhill Park, which got some extra cleanup attention today:

Southwest Precinct Community Police Team officers were joined by participants in an SPD-coordinated city summer youth employment program.

This area on the south side of Roxhill Park has been the scene of unauthorized camping as well as illegal dumping.

Items found and trucked away included a wheelchair, bicycle, sleeping bags, clothing, and furniture, as well as this drum set:

On site were CPT officers Jon Flores (above) and John O’Neil (below, talking with local community advocate Amanda Kay Helmick):

The cleanup ran from about 9:30 this morning until noon. The Find It, Fix It Walk starts at the Longfellow Creek P-Patch next Monday night at 6:30 and will head east, through Westwood and then to Roxhill.

KT July 20, 2016 (3:06 pm)

“When Mayor Murray‘s Find It, Fix It Community Walk comes to the Westwood/Roxhill area next Monday (here’s the map and schedule), it will end at Roxhill Park, which got some extra cleanup attention today”

So that is what it takes…..

lindy July 20, 2016 (6:16 pm)

It takes a lot of people to clean out the hidden spots. Youth and CPO’s to offer assistance in a potentially unsafe situation….Definitely not from people sitting on the sidelines, offering unhelpful comments. Youth and Police have schedules too.

smokeycretin9 July 20, 2016 (4:09 pm)

Why clean it up BEFORE the mayor gets to see what he needs to see? Trash, stolen items, public drug use, beer cans and needles!

WSB July 20, 2016 (4:15 pm)

That seems to be the general way these events work – when the problem can be tackled with a cleanup, anyway – before the one in mid-Delridge last October, there was a cleanup of some weedy planting strips by Super 24 …

https://westseattleblog.com/2015/10/video-delridge-find-it-fix-it-walk-sees-mayor-big-city-contingent-considering-concerns-from-safety-to-drainage/

But there are problems that can’t be nibbled at that way, and even at this site, that’s five days away.

Double Dub Resident July 20, 2016 (4:58 pm)

Why clean it up before the mayor does the find it, fix it community walk? Leave it so he/they can see how it really is as is.

flimflam July 20, 2016 (4:58 pm)

so much garbage and unsanitary conditions from the unauthorized campers. if folks won’t accept services they shouldn’t be able to trash areas with impunity.

hj July 20, 2016 (5:36 pm)

I hope that drumkit gets recycled / returned to its rightful owner

chemist July 20, 2016 (10:11 pm)

I hope the person who required the wheelchair was miraculously healed so they aren’t missing it.

smokeycretin9 July 20, 2016 (5:49 pm)

Its like some are trying to build a trash moat around their space.

JoB July 20, 2016 (6:10 pm)

i wondered why the park was so empty this morning ..

DawgtiredWS July 20, 2016 (7:19 pm)

Remember when the City of Seattle use to offer a free junk pick day once a year. Maybe this is our chance to take any unused items to Roxhill Park and dispose of them there just before Mayor Ed “mo money” Murray arrives. It could mess up his clean photo-op. HaHaHa .

Marty July 20, 2016 (7:48 pm)

Just yesterday I read that Seattle needed more parks. I suggest that the existing parks need to be properly maintained before I would support having more. Makes sense?

Julia July 22, 2016 (3:14 pm)

Wow. Am I the only one looking at that sleeping bag in the back of the garbage truck and thinking “there goes someone’s bed”? I’m glad it is still warm out.

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