"Clean Seattle" Comes to Judkins Park

April 27th, 2002 - Surrounded by eager young people, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and citizen volunteers today pulled weeds and planted flowers in Judkins Park as part of the mayor's teams up with city crews and neighborhood volunteers toa new city program called Clean Seattle, intiative.

The park is located at 4351 S. Othello St. Streets. Bordering streets and easements around the park will also be freshened-up. Clean Seattle emphasizes cooperative cleanup and beautification of the city through community work parties that involve city crews, neighborhood businesses and community members.

"Cleanups like this make Seattle a prettier, more comfortable place to live. The city and community are working together to strengthen the fabric of our neighborhoods and to be better urban stewards," Nickels said.

During the two-day cleanup of Judkins Park that began yesterday, the park was awash with city crews, business and civic organizations, and volunteers from Americorps, Zeta Phi Beta sorority, two Adopt-A-Street groups and neighborhood residents. As the Emerald City Jazz Ensemble set the mood with cool jazz, the workers swept streets, planted flowers and shrubs, weeded garden beds, trimmed and put bark around street trees, removed graffiti and fixed street lights.

Partners in Clean Seattle include the Seattle Arts Commission, Mayor Greg Nickels says, "This will make Seattle a better place to live. The partnerships we create in communities and links forged between city departments will eliminate eyesores and help us all learn to be better urban stewards," Nickels said. Seattle City Light, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle Transportation, Department of Design, Construction and Land Use and the Department of Neighborhoods.

For more information about Clean Seattle, or for help in organizing a cleanup in your neighborhood, please visit the mayor's web site at www.cityofseattle.net/mayor, or call 206-684-8811.

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