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Youth Service Day 4/25

By DNDA Admin | April 27, 2009

Saturday’s work party marked the annual Global Youth Service Day, and we celebrated with another great weekend of work. The day was spent at the 14th & Holly site with the University Child Development School (UCDS) and other community members. The Mark Smason Band entertained us while we worked on site maintenance, mulch rings, and…

EARTH DAY

By DNDA Admin | April 27, 2009

Thank you to everyone who came out for our Earth Day event with Duwamish Alive! and Earth Corps. The event was held at our Cooper site (Pigeon Point Park) on Saturday, April 18th. We had a great volunteer turnout – over 500 people including corporate groups and student organizations. Volunteers were divided into 20 groups…

March 27: Explorer School

By DNDA Admin | April 1, 2009

A few kids from Explorer Junior High School joined us on March 27th for a work party at our Cooper site. We removed 170 sq. ft. of Himalayan blackberry and spread 509 sq. ft. of mulch – all before lunch. After eating pizza with the kids, we removed 750 sq. ft. of Scotch broom and…

Weekend work parties

By DNDA Admin | March 31, 2009

We had two work parties this weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. On Saturday, we had a cool group from Arbor Heights Community Church, as well as some of our regular volunteers. On Sunday, the youth from Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF) joined us for a few hours and brought some yummy fried…

3/21 at 14th & Holly

By DNDA Admin | March 25, 2009

We began the day at the 14th and Holly site removing Himalayan blackberry along the trail. We were able to remove 1,000 sq.ft. of Himalayan blackberry by the end of the day. Local clarinetist Amy Denio came out to perform while we worked. She is pictured here sitting on one of the rocks that will…

Another Allstar, All awesome, day!

By DNDA Admin | February 18, 2009

Today we were at our newly established Allstar fitness site. If you recall a few weeks ago we started our project with a group from University Prep. They cleared a lot of area for us to go in today and start… just guess… PLANTING!!! We had a group of teens from the city with John…