North City did a little spring cleaning this weekend 🧹
20 volunteers turned out Saturday morning and covered a ton of ground - 15th Ave from 24th down to 170th, 180th and 175th, all of 5th Ave NE, 12th Ave, and NE Serpentine Pl. Over 20 bags of trash collected (plus one La-Z-Boy recliner that had no business being there 🛋️).
This was Year 3 of the North City Neighborhood Cleanup - and you can genuinely tell the difference year over year.
If you've been thinking about doing something like this in your neighborhood, it's more doable than you might think. The City of Shoreline will supply volunteers with cleanup kits - bags, gloves, grabbers - you just have to coordinate through your neighborhood association. They'll even dispatch crews to haul away the piles when you're done.
Don't have a neighborhood association? Shoreline has 14 of them - there's almost certainly one covering your area. Reach out, get involved, or just show up. That's how this stuff happens.