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Coyote Creek cleanup attracts San Jose teen volunteers

Editorial Board Published February 4, 2025
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Greater than 80 folks spent a part of the Martin Luther King Jr. vacation stuffing garments, bottle caps, and meals littering Coyote Creek into trash baggage, and pulling procuring carts and tv screens from the creek mattress.

As a part of the tenth Maintain Coyote Creek Lovely cleanup, volunteers labored alongside a bit of the creek subsequent to Selma Olinder Park close to the placement of a current homeless encampment.

Jeweliette Pearson, a volunteer coordinator for the cleanup, mentioned the volunteer staff made “great progress” in eradicating trash.

“We had a lot of people … which is great,” she mentioned.

Every volunteer obtained a neon vest with the “Volunteer” printed on the again, gloves, a metallic claw-like trash picker, and an enormous inexperienced plastic bag. Individuals have been then advised to type teams of eight and have been assigned a pacesetter. Every chief led their group to a chosen part of the creek to scrub up. Volunteers made their manner down a steep hill to start work.

Within the creek, they found two procuring carts. Volunteers labored collectively to wrangle the carts from the mud and carry them and full inexperienced trash baggage up the steep embankment.

In whole, they crammed 124 baggage of trash weighing 4 tons from Coyote Creek.

One of many scholar volunteers was Gitansh Balani, a freshman at Evergreen Valley Excessive College in San Jose.

“I volunteered because it’s a break day, and then I want to help out the community as much as I can,” he mentioned. As well as, by serving to within the cleanup, he chalks up volunteer hours required by his faculty.

Jasmine Tam, a freshman from Lynbrook Excessive College in San Jose, additionally volunteered to obtain service hours for college.

Coyote Creek extends 63.6 miles and has the most important watershed amongst creeks in Santa Clara County. Maintain Coyote Creek Lovely organizes cleanups, plantings, leisure and cultural actions, and education schemes.

“Our purpose is really to build community around Coyote Creek,” mentioned Deb Kramer, the group’s govt director. “And our mission is to engage, educate and encourage people by bringing the community together to take action.”

Kramer known as the creek an exquisite pure useful resource for San Jose and Santa Clara County. ”We wish folks to get pleasure from it,” she mentioned, “but also take care of it.”

For extra details about Maintain Coyote Creek Lovely go to www.keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org.

Brittany Pierola Diaz is a senior at Del Mar Excessive College in San Jose.

 

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