On Monday, October 4th, the Full Time mentors and Leadership Team from Wright Charter School worked alongside with Betsy from the City of Santa Rosa to clean-up a creek off of Sonoma Avenue. We cleaned up lots of broken glass, old cigarettes, trash and pulled clothes and furniture from the creek.
After we cleaned a long stretch of the creek, we cut back invasive ivy from numerous trees along a walking trail. Our leader Betsy said that the Ivy plant usually takes over the tree and cuts off sunlight, nutrients and oxygen from the trees, causing them to eventually die.
We had numerous members who also discovered the wonderful poison oak plant and left them with a wonderful itchy, scratchy rash!
Overall, it was a wonderful day spent beautifying Santa Rosa as well as a great team bonding experience. For our job well done, we received awesome stickers saying we’re “CREEK PROTECTORS!”.
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