(MORE SERVICE PROJECTS ADDED to list Friday morning – thanks for sending – editor@westseattleblog.com)
To recap the toplines after 2 days of the Seattle Education Association strike:
*No school Friday
*No new negotiations so far; each side met today with mediators. Seattle Public Schools held a short media briefing at 5 pm; we published immediate toplines in our earlier coverage as well as our social-media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), and also recorded it on video:
Our earlier coverage also includes union comments – while the district says the union “has not responded” to its 5:15 pm Tuesday offer, the union says it was essentially not a new offer so its response was to announce the strike.
*No picketing tomorrow – teachers plan to spend the morning on service projects (it’s National Day of Service) and then there’s at least one afternoon activity.
(Gatewood educators who worked at a Morgan Junction park on Thursday – photo courtesy Barry White)
Students and families are welcome, we’re told, to join in any and all of these:
COMBINED SCHOOL SERVICE PROJECT: DENNY INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL & CHIEF SEALTH INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Instead of picketing tomorrow, the above mentioned striking teachers, staff & parents will be participating in a combined service project along the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail. Blackberry removal will begin at 8:30 at the Thistle P-Patch, and going further in along the trail.
There will also be a Read-In along Thistle St. working in shifts, and then reading.
At 11:30 we will do a trash pickup, while walking along several different routes to Castle Park. A BBQ will be held there at 12:00. All are welcome to join.
If people want to join or support, it would be fantastic. We will need leather gloves, pointed shovels, loppers, hand pruners, tarps. Any drop
offs of breakfast food, while we are at the Longfellow Creek P Patch, would be appreciated. At Castle Rock we will be BBQing so any potluck style foods would be great at that time. We plan to converge with the folks from Roxhill Elementary there at 12 noon.To sum up:
8:30 am Blackberry removal, Thistle P-Patch.
11:30 Trash cleanup as walking to Castle Park, to meet Roxhill supporters.
12:00 Barbecue at Castle Park for support and fellowship.What is needed?
1. The YMCA’s earth service corps will be bringing tools for about 40 people, we could definitely use more gloves, loppers, pointy shovels,
pitchforks, yard waste bags2. Breakfast Items for the morning clean up at the Thistle P-Patch, beginning around 8:00am
3. Potluck lunch items at Castle Park for barbecue lunch beginning around 12:00
Thank you for your support, West Seattle! (Facebook link here)
FROM ROXHILL ELEMENTARY (mentioned above)
Roxhill Elementary Staff voted to spend their Day of Service at Roxhill Park. They will be picking up trash and removing invasive species as park of the larger efforts of Denny and Sealth to clean the Longfellow Creek Legacy Trail.
They will be out in the park starting at 8:30 am and they are welcoming students and caregivers to join them.
FROM FAIRMOUNT PARK ELEMENTARY:
We are trying to get word out to West Seattle educators, families, and community supporters who would like to join us for our service project tomorrow morning. Meet at “Anchor Park” at the Duwamish Head at 8:30 am. Garbage bags will be provided. Wear red, wear gloves.
The International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer effort on behalf of our oceans, lakes and rivers—a massive display of teamwork that removes millions of pounds of plastic and other trash from shorelines and water bodies around the globe. Pick up litter and record what you find to be added to the Global Trash Index while on strike Friday, September 11th.
FROM ALKI ELEMENTARY: Cleanup on Alki Beach (multiple schools participating), 8:30-10:30 am, area students/families welcome. Meet at Alki Statue of Liberty.
CONCORD INTERNATIONAL: Their service project is at South Park’s Marra Farm.
HIGHLAND PARK ELEMENTARY: They’ll be working at the Salvation Army facility in White Center.
(added) WEST SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL: Participating in the Alki cleanup (meet at Statue of Liberty, 8:30 am) and also cleaning up along California SW in front of Hiawatha/WSHS and on the east side of the street, also starting at 8:30 am, community welcome to join in either/both.
(added) LOUISA BOREN STEM K-8: Delridge/Myrtle “bucket brigade” – details here.
(added) LAFAYETTE ELEMENTARY: As shared by the West Seattle Food Bank:
Lafayette Elementary School teachers are having a food drive for the West Seattle Food Bank at Lafayette school at 2645 California Ave. SW in the Admiral District. The food drive will be from 9 am to 12 noon today, Friday, 9/11 and they want to receive donations for our Backpack Program which provides healthy weekend meals to school children from 8 West Seattle schools at risk of hunger over the weekend. Items needed are individual servings of shelf stable milk (cow, soy or almond), boxed or caned juices, individual meals in one like soups, mac n’ cheese, ravioli, cup of noodles/top ramen, applesauce/fruit cups and peanut butter or tuna snack packs. Please stop by and support the teachers and your school children in need.
THEN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON … The Alki Beach Read-In, 12:30-3 pm, full details published here late last night.
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