On April 16, 2011 CalSERVES spent the afternoon cleaning creeks throughout southwest Santa Rosa. The children, families and communities (and wildlife) we serve on a daily basis deserve to have the cleanest creeks possible to play and explore in.
Amanda Houlemard discovers a toy sword in Todd Creek!
The Taylor Mountain crew after all their hard work!
Meadow View found a piece of a car frame in Colgan creek.
Thank you for getting it out!
The Meadow View team moving their many trash bags to a safe place.
82 CalSERVES AmeriCorps members were in attendance and tackled Roseland Creek, Colgan Creek and Todd Creek around Stony Point Road, Hearn Avenue, Petaluma Hill Road, Todd Road and Santa Rosa Avenue.
Charlie Ruda with a very pretty balloon, one that doesn't belong in a creek. In the garbage bag it goes.
The Roseland team after all their good work.
Tyler Rockey using all his strength to pull a shopping cart out.
The Sheppard team found not one, but two shopping carts. Wow!
CalSERVES participated in this event in accordance with Global Youth Service Day and partnered with the City of Santa Rosa. Global Youth Service Day is an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service and service-learning.
Hannah Kooistra from RL Stevens ankle deep in Roseland Creek getting trash out.
There's the RL crew with all their trash bags... and fun picker-upers!
Ew, Wright found SO much garbage. Thank you for getting it all out!
The Wright team are superheroes!
We picked up garbage for nearly 2 hours and there was so much more to clean! We found tires, shopping carts, backpacks, parts of cars and bikes, toys, balloons, bottles, cans, and tons of food wrappers and garbage.
Sara from Kawana finds something interesting.
The Kawana ladies are so serious about creek cleaning!
The Bellevue boys getting into dangerous waters, the community is worth it though.
Bellevue sure found some icky stuff, thank you for your hard work!
We had a blast cleaning the creek and can't wait to do it again, it is so important that we keep our community clean for our students and their families!
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