This month’s Shorewood cleanup event is scheduled at Shorewood Park on Saturday, June 20th from 10am – 12 pm.

Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)

The group may be spreading mulch in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

Burien Parks wants everyone to know that this Saturday (May 16th), from 10am-Noon there’s a group mulching party at Shorewood Park, which is located at 28th Ave SW and SW 118th Street.

Just remember – bring a bucket!

Here are the details:

WHAT: Group mulching party

WHEN: Saturday, May 16th from 10am to Noon

WHERE: Shorewood Park, located at 28th SW and SW 118th Streets

INFO: Please just show up if you’re interested –bring pruners and gloves if you have them. Tomorrow the group is mulching so if you have a bucket with a handle bring it along (possibly 5 gallon but can be smaller.)

Shorewood is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side.)

The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

A big pile of Ivy pulled by Pat Haugen and Ted Daley.

As Spring springs into our midst, a young man’s (and woman’s) fancy turns of course to…gardening.

Weeding.

Pruning.

And epecially, as the kids say, “getting the ivy out!”

So what better way to sate your newly-sprouted spring desires than to attend a Shorewood Park Work Party this Saturday, March 21st, from 10an to Noon?

This work party is a collaboration between the City of Burien’s Adopt-A-Park project and Shorewood-On-The-Sound Community Club (SOTSCC), and notice comes to us courtesy Jean Spohn, a Director of SOTSCC, as well as member of the Burien Parks and Recreation Board and the initiator of the SOTSCC’s ‘Adopt a Park’ program.

Here’s more info from Jean:

Work parties in Shorewood Park continue in 2009 from 10:00 AM to Noon on the third Saturday of every month. Please join us! We have many tasks, great and small! January’s volunteer force boasted 11 members – some pulled ivy from an area graced by two Noble Fir trees planted by Fred Henzi 20 years ago, and others planted Coastal Strawberry plants which are a wonderful native groundcover.

In February, volunteers placed 25 Sword Ferns along our trail and then removed many small English Holly trees and lots of English Ivy. Seahurst Park has been adopted. Work parties are held the 4th Saturday of each month.

At this party, the focus will be on everyone’s favorite invasive plant – ivy.

You might wonder – Why is English ivy a problem? English ivy is a woody, climbing vine that has been used extensively in the Pacific Northwest. Ivy used to be found in roadside plantings, on steep banks, as ornamental decoration and climbing on buildings, fences and other vertical surfaces. But English ivy is not native to the United States and has no natural predators or pests to keep it in check. It easily escapes from planting areas and invades natural areas, parks and urban forests. It creates “Ivy Deserts” – areas so dominated by ivy that no other vegetation survives. Ivy affects trees negatively, especially when it climbs into the canopy. By adding weight to limbs and reducing air flow around the tree’s trunk, ivy makes a tree more susceptible to canopy failure, wind stress and disease. It can also strangle trees around their base and reduce the flow of nutrients up and down the tree.

English ivy does not provide a significant food for native wildlife, but does provide habitat for rats. And banks covered with ivy are prone to landslide.

What can you do? Do not plant ivy. Remove ivy, especially from vertical surfaces where it seeds and is spread further by birds. Remove ivy from your yard. Participate in a Shorewood Park work party.

Please bring pruners and gloves if you have them. Shorewood is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, head west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW, make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side – see map below). The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

For more information, check:

• http://seahurstpark.org/volunteer.html#about
• http://shorewoodonthesound.org/adoptpark.php
  

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The monthly Shorewood Park cleaning event is scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 17th) from 10am to Noon at – you guessed it – Shorewood Park!

Please just show up if you’re interested – and don’t forget to bring pruners and gloves if you have them.

The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around and look for your fellow gardeners.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (Follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side):

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The monthly Shorewood Park gardening/cleanup event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 18th, from 10 am-12 pm.

No need to RSVP on this one – please just show up if you’re interested, and bring your trusty pruners and gloves if you have them.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left so you are heading west on 116th Street and follow to 28th Avenue SW make a left and go 2 blocks, the park entrance is on your left side – map below).

The group may be working in the lower half of the park so follow the short trail around.

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If you believe the imminently wonderful weekend “Weather Advisory” (which we do since it’s about 68 degrees right now), this weekend will be gorgeous and sunny.

What better way to celebrate the belated arrival of Spring (or does this qualify as an early Summer?) than by heading on over to Shorewood Park on Saturday from 10am – Noon for a mulch spreading and invasive plant removal work party?

Volunteers will be working in the lower portion of the park so follow the short trail till you reach them. Parks Board Chair Jean Spohn will be leading the effort on Saturday so be sure to get signed in with her. You do not have to stay the whole time – come for as long as your schedule allows.

Shorewood Park is located at 28th Avenue SW and SW 118th Street (follow Ambaum to 116th Street, turn left and head west on 116th Street; at 28th Avenue SW take a left and go 2 blocks; the park entrance is on your left).

If you have loppers bring them along.

And don’t forget the sunscreen!

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Burien Parks & Recreation celebrated Arbor Day with the dedication and planting of a Pacific Dogwood at the trailhead of Shorewood Park.

Mayor Joan McGilton, Parks Board Chair Jean Spohn and Parks Department employee Myron Clinton helped plant the tree: