The Fremont community cleanup is back. Join neighbors Saturday, July 12, from 9 to 11 a.m. for the first cleanup in several years.
Dennis Bateman from Patrick Place, run by Catholic Community Services, is organizing the event. He started the cleanup tradition in 2017 and continued it until shortly before the pandemic. Patrick Place Apartments offers 71 units of affordable housing with on-site case management services for single adults who have experienced homelessness, and Bateman is opening the doors to the public for this community event.
Caroline Sayre, Community Liaison of the Fremont Neighborhood Council Board and co-founder of Seattle Scooper Sonics, and Alyson Teeter, Vice President of the Fremont Neighborhood Council Board and Fremont Neighbor editor, are helping organize the event.
Teeter helped Bateman organize the original 2017 event. Sayre attended that first cleanup and was inspired to start the Super Scooper Sonics with her co-founder, creating another neighborhood litter pickup group. The team is happy to be back together again to organize this impactful community event.
The cleanup is part of One Seattle Day of Service, a citywide volunteer initiative. You can register here. Don’t worry if online registration fills up – come anyway.
Everything you need will be provided: t-shirts, garbage pickers, gloves and trash bags. The cleanup will focus on Upper Fremont.
Local businesses are pitching in too. Marketime, Caffe Vita and Pecado Bueno will provide donuts, coffee, snacks and water to keep volunteers fueled.
Whether you’re a longtime resident or new to the neighborhood, it’s a chance to help keep Fremont looking good while meeting your neighbors.
Editor’s note: Alyson Teeter is co-organizing this event and is editor of Fremont Neighbor.
