APRIL IS CITO MONTH AND THE WSGA
IS LOOKING FOR MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS TO GET OUT AND GIVE BACK TO
OUR COMMUNITY!
This CITO is to benefit The City
of Bellevue Parks Department who is putting on their annual Arbor
Day Volunteer Event. This year the City is planning Arbor Day
events in and around the Botanical Gardens in Bellevue. There will
be work going on at the gardens but also areas around the gardens
as well. Currently the Bellevue Parks Department is getting
together a list of jobs and will be assigning jobs based upon the
size of the groups who sign up for the Arbor Day Event. At the
present time, I do not know where our work party will be or what we
will be doing. I will know that information around 4/1/11. What
I do know is:
- THE EVENT WILL BE ON SATURDAY
APRIL 16, 2011
- TIME: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Folks
will need to assemble around 8:30 AM for sign in). WE WILL
MEET IN THE NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. LOOK FOR ME
WEARING A WSGA HAT. I WILL HAVE THE WAIVER FORMS WHICH WILL ACT AS
THE SIGN IN LOG.
- THIS IS A RAIN OR SHINE EVENT,
DRESS ACCORDINGLY. TOOLS WILL BE PROVIDED, YOU MIGHT WANT TO BRING
YOUR OWN GLOVES.
- OUR WORK WILL CONSIST OF
TREE/BUSH PLANTING.
- THE LOCATION OF THE EVENT WILL BE
NEAR THE BOTANICAL GARDENS IN BELLEVUE.
- PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE A
T-SHIRT COURTESY OF THE CITY OF BELLEVUE
- AT THE END OF THE WORK (AROUND
NOON) THE CITY WILL HAVE A TREE PLANTING CEREMONY AND HOT
FOOD.
- THE DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS
EVENT IS NOON ON FRIDAY APRIL 1ST. Anyone who signs up after that
date, will not get a T-shirt since the sizes are will be sent with
the head count.
I would like folks that want to
participate in this event, to log a "will attend" log and indicate
the following in your post:
- THE NUMBER OF CACHERS IN YOUR
PARTY
- THE T-SHIRT SIZES OF ALL CACHERS
IN YOUR PARTY
My contact will then get back
with me on exactly where and what they want us to do when I forward
the head count and complete the application form.ONCE I HEAR
BACK FROM THE CITY AS TO WHAT OUR JOB WILL BE, I WILL BE UPDATING
THIS CACHE PAGE. IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE
BOOKMARK THIS PAGE SO THAT YOU CAN KEEP UP TO DATE ON WHERE WE WILL
ULTIMATE MEET FOR THE EVENT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF GETTING THIS PAGE
UP, THE COORDINATES WILL BE SET AT THE BELLEVUE BOTANICAL
GARDENS.
After the event, I will hold a
raffle for folks who participated in this event. When you sign in
for the event, you will receive one raffle ticket. The items
raffled off will consist of CITO coins (I have two coins that I
specifically purchased for the event), some WSGA swag and a couple
of cache containers.
So come on out and give back to
the community by helping out a local park. Get a nifty CITO event
icon to add to your collection, get some food and may be even win a
raffle item!
I look forward to seeing you
there!
3/31/11 UPDATE! I ran into
Christine at COB parks today while at COB meeting. I know what we
will be doing for the CITO. The city will have us planting
about 60 trees for the event. WE WILL ALL NEED TO MEET AT THE
BOTANICAL GARDENS! DO NOT PARK AT THE GARDENS PARKING LOT.
This will be a big event and the city asks that we park across the
street OR at Wilburton park just down the hill from the botanical
gardens. I will put up parking coordinates. IF YOU HAVE A SHOVEL
AND GLOVES, I WOULD BRING THESE ALONG since there will be some
digging going on. The city will provide some equipment for this
event. Additional shovels will be appreciated. As Christine
put to me today, we will be planting a "small forest" so do plan
accordingly. We will gather in the parking lot near he
entrances to the Botanical Gardens. I will have my WSGA hat on and
CITO shirt. Look for me there. I have submitted the paperwork and
the T-shirt sizes to Christine. SO future CITO attendees may not
get a shirt.
4/13/11 UPDATE! I got a
call today from Bellevue's own TV production folks. They plan to
have their TV crew at the Arbor Day event filming a group planting
trees and they chose our group to film! They will take footage of
us planting trees and will interview a couple of folks. Please let
me know if you do not want to be filmed and I will advise BTV to
edit their footage accordingly. The footage will be edited down to
about 2 -3 minutes and will run during the month of May on BTV
which is also picked up by neighboring cities like Redmond. Also,
BTV will be uploading YouTube footage of our event as well. This is
an opportunity for the WSGA to get exposure for the club. So if you
have any WSGA garb, where it during the CITO event! I have
made some changes to this event page. We will be meeting in
the parking lot of the Botanical Gardens. There will be forms to
sign which will act at the sign in sheet. I will have a couple of
clipboards handy for folks to complete wavier forms. We will then
proceed down to the tables and get our meal tickets and T-shirts.
We will also meet our project leader in the same area. From there,
our leader will take us to where we will be
working.
This event is
sponsored by the Puget Sound Chapter of the Washington State
Geocaching Association. If you are a geocacher in the state of
Washington, please consider joining WSGA. See the WSGA website
for details. |