next cleanup
Sat, Nov 1
9 am at the Elm Street bridge
a field guide by neighbors with gloves and buckets
Friends ofMill Creek
Five years ago you couldn't see the bottom of Mill Creek. Then a few neighbors started showing up on the first Saturday of the month. Turn the page and watch what happened.
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0bags of trash pulled out, one Saturday at a time
2020field notes · first Saturday of every month
Bring a friend. We bring the gloves.
Two hours, then coffee at the bridge. Kids love it, dogs love it more. We've never had a cleanup where someone didn't find something strange. Last month it was a bowling ball.
a game for the kids (and Dave)
Cleanup bingo
Every first Saturday, kids get a bingo card. Spot it, stamp it. Five in a row wins first pick of the donuts. Try it: tap what you'd find.
two miles of creek, eight stretches
Adopt a stretch
adoptedneeds a friend
five years in numbers (made up, like us)
Less to find, every year
Bags of trash pulled out per year. The bars are getting shorter, and that's the best chart we've ever made.
Herons spotted this year:
species spotted at the creek
A short field guide
listen for · 25 sec
Call of the organizer
Mei, who organizes it. Heard most first Saturdays near the Elm Street bridge. Often says: "The herons came back."
The first time, it was me and my neighbor and two rakes. We filled nine bags and you couldn't even tell. But we kept coming back. Last spring a heron was standing right where we pulled out that shopping cart. I cried a little. Don't tell anyone.
A real voice note, recorded for this sample. On a real Community Webfolio, it's the organizer's own voice.cut out and keep
$25 buys a family's worth of gloves
We're all volunteers. Money goes to gloves, grabbers, bags and the dumpster fee the city charges us.