When: April 28, 2012
Where: Westwood
Volunteers – 340 youth volunteers + 60 leader volunteers + 30 student volunteers at Lincoln High School (through Action Youth) = 430 total volunteers
Projects – Alley clean-up/graffiti removal, garden prep/planting, painting, pavers removed, tree planting
- Approximately 75% of the entire Westwood neighborhood had alleys cleaned and graffiti removed
- 2 community gardens prepped and planted (at Munroe Elementary School and Kepner Middle School)
- 1 home and 2 businesses painted
- 20 bags of trash collected and 28 tree pits de-bricked for future tree planting on Alameda Avenue
- 93 trees planted (11 at Westwood Park, 17 at Knapp Elementary, 65 at Garfield Park)
- 6 dumpsters filled with trash, plus two city trucks
- 1 block party enjoyed by hundreds of volunteers and Westwood residents to celebrate all that was accomplished!
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