A new series of late winter work parties has been announced for the collaborative Othello Park Habitat Restoration project. Five scheduled work parties from January through March will give community members the chance to help steward a valuable park resource, and to serve as a positive adult role model for the youth working on the project. Tools and gloves provided.
- Sat., Jan. 16, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., February 6, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., February 20, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., March 13, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., March 27, 10 – 1 pm
During six work parties this past fall over 25 community volunteers worked alongside 10-15 youth participants of King County Superior Court’s job training program to remove invasive weeds, install erosion control jute netting, and mulch with woodchips on the slope north of the famous Othello Park slide.
This project is a partnership of the Othello Park Alliance, City of Seattle Parks and Recreation, King County Superior Court, and King County Department of Natural Resources. The project will take place during the period of October 2009 – April 2011.
The Othello Park Alliance works to assure that Othello Park’s beauty and open space is retained, enhanced, and integrated into a vibrant, multicultural, pedestrian-friendly Othello town center and residential community by coordinating community events and making capital improvements in the Park.
To RSVP for work parties or find out more about helping Othello Park Alliance with our work, please contact Katie Pencke at pencke@yahoo.com.
Othello Park is located at 4351 South Othello Street, just east of Martin Luther King Jr Way. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
Related:
- OPA Gets $10,000 Grant to Restore Hillside Habitat at Othello Park (10/6/09)
- Goats?! In the Rainier Valley?! (9/22/09)
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