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Dozens of volunteer efforts this Saturday to “turn the values” of Mayor Bruce Harrell’s One Seattle vision “into shared action and meaningful improvement” will include clean-ups of Cal Anderson Park and the surrounding streets of Pike/Pine and Broadway.

CHS reported here on Harrell’s launch of the One Seattle Day of Service effort last month. As mayor and through his career in Seattle politics including years on the Seattle City Council, Harrell has often focused on the trash and graffiti end of public safety, sometimes stopping in his tracks on community visits to comment on a tagged building or busted glass.

The Day of Service push also is centered around his administration’s championing of philanthropy and volunteer efforts to help address Seattle’s issues of drug, mental health, and homelessness. In February, big givers led by the Ballmer family worked with Harrell to launch a $10 million program supported by philanthropists and corporate donors to place “peer navigators” to move campers into services and reduce the presence of homeless people in downtown Seattle.

Meanwhile, CHS reported on efforts from mutual aid volunteers to provide food and resources to Capitol Hill’s homeless community.

View the map of Day of Service events here

Across the core of Capitol Hill and the Central District, Saturday’s organized Day of Service opportunities are limited. The GSBA’s Capitol Hill Business Alliance group is organizing two clean-ups in Cal Anderson and on the streets around Pike/Pine and Broadway. In the park, they’ll  be “picking up trash, pulling weeds, and putting down mulch.”  “Wear sturdy closed-toe shoes and bring garden gloves if available,” the GSBA advises.

Other opportunities on the Hill and in the core of the Central District include only gardening at 14th Ave’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church and at 32nd Ave E’s MLK Fame Community Center.

You can learn more about Saturday’s events and volunteer opportunities at seattle.gov.

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