We had a good work party today with 5 volunteers from the Mercer Island youth volunteer group, a couple of students, and 4 returning "Friends". We are continuing to work on the Triangle, battling bindweed in the rose bushes (ouch!), keeping tabs on the horsetail, and weeding and mulching problem areas. A volunteer, Adam, has cleaned up the weeds along the alley and built a really cool rock edge along the Triangle area. Mulch has been ordered to fill in the area. The Natural Area Crew of the Parks Dept. repaired some pipe breaks and filled the water tanks for our summer season and volunteers began the first watering of the season. Thanks to neighbor Marvin for donating his water last week and Mike for doing emergency watering of the new plantings. Parks has moved the water tank up on Golf Dr. a little bit south and installed new pipe so we can water the new spring 2011 plants.
Jay and Christine have been hard at work on our online presence. We are now on Facebook and Twitter with cool pictures and Friends and Tweets and all that kind of stuff. Lenny has been doing his tireless patrol of graffiti and trash along with maintaining the far South area dubbed as "Lenny's garden". Seattle Parks Foundation came out and provided tree tags honoring Deb Casault and the Beacon Hill Urban Forestry group for their donation of trees to Lewis Park. Thank You All!
Green Seattle Partnership is moving to automate all the sign ups and reporting that the Forest Stewards are required to do. The new system is in test mode and we're working out the bugs. The new system will cut down a lot on all the manual paperwork the volunteer Forest Stewards are asked to do in reporting restoration activity, so, some work up front, but, a really cool system when it gets all in place.
Finally, I'm slowly, but surely, doing the DON paperwork to close out our Small and Simple grant of 2010. You will all get a copy of the final report. But, with the closing of this grant, that will also mean we will need to start looking at fundraising opportunities in the future in order to raise money to buy native plants. Any ideas?
I'll keep you posted on info as it happens with the Opportunity Fund work.
Ok, Hope you are all having a fantastic Seattle Summer!
Jay and Christine have been hard at work on our online presence. We are now on Facebook and Twitter with cool pictures and Friends and Tweets and all that kind of stuff. Lenny has been doing his tireless patrol of graffiti and trash along with maintaining the far South area dubbed as "Lenny's garden". Seattle Parks Foundation came out and provided tree tags honoring Deb Casault and the Beacon Hill Urban Forestry group for their donation of trees to Lewis Park. Thank You All!
Green Seattle Partnership is moving to automate all the sign ups and reporting that the Forest Stewards are required to do. The new system is in test mode and we're working out the bugs. The new system will cut down a lot on all the manual paperwork the volunteer Forest Stewards are asked to do in reporting restoration activity, so, some work up front, but, a really cool system when it gets all in place.
Finally, I'm slowly, but surely, doing the DON paperwork to close out our Small and Simple grant of 2010. You will all get a copy of the final report. But, with the closing of this grant, that will also mean we will need to start looking at fundraising opportunities in the future in order to raise money to buy native plants. Any ideas?
I'll keep you posted on info as it happens with the Opportunity Fund work.
Ok, Hope you are all having a fantastic Seattle Summer!
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