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Ongoing Volunteer
Opportunities
Mary S Young Park - Trail work in the
winter months (usually November through April)
Every Monday morning from 8:00am to noon.
Meet at the shed in the gravel parking lot. Bring gloves. We have
wheelbarrows and shovels.
Dave
Kruse
dbkruse@comcast.net
or 503-656-5922
Mary S Young Park - Invasive species work on clematis, blackberries,
tree ivy and holly (May through October)
Every Monday morning from 7:00am to noon. Meet at the shed in the
gravel parking lot.
Bring gloves. We have shovels, saws and Pulaski’s.
Dave Kruse
dbkruse@comcast.net
or 503-656-5922
Past
Success Stories at Mary S Young
Down by the
Riverside a
great Success May 17, 2008
December 1st, 10 people showed up on a cold morning to finishing
pulling the ivy in the area between the paved parking lot and the
restrooms.
Thank you to:
1. Starbucks for providing funding for
tools, trees and rocks.
2. Monday trail work parties who faithfully move heavy wheelbarrows
of gravel.
3. Eleven Clackamas County Community Service crews for cutting ivy
off hundreds of trees.
Accomplishments as
of December 1, 2007:
1. Ivy has been cut off over half of the 100 acres of trees setting
it back one year.
2. Ivy has been pulled in 7 areas surrounded by trails, roads and
creeks.
What a great day in November for Mary S Young Park and a terrible day for the Ivy!
25 Starbucks employees and 35 other community volunteers pulling Ivy for
4 hours. We can now say we have slowed the spread of ground ivy.
Thank you in November to:
1. Rosemont Ridge Middle School 7th graders who pulled Ivy on October
3rd, 2007
2. Portland General Electric for the $500 Employee Volunteer Grant
3. City of West Linn for providing gravel and wheel barrows for trail
work
4. Starbucks for providing coffee for our volunteer work force
5. To all the people who have joined in the park restoration work.
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Mary S Young Park Volunteers