Opportunity Details
Columbia Springs Cleanup & Restoration (age 7+) *MLK Weekend 2019*
Join us in honoring the legacy of Dr. King through meaningful service to our community: "Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Columbia Springs is a 100-acre natural area, education center, and historic hatchery. We provide 2+ miles of recreational hiking, workshops, tours, and on-site festivals. Our education team engages every 5th graders in the Evergreen and Vancouver school districts on 4 hour, science-based field trips. Serving over 7,000 students each school year, we are a leading environmental education center of SW Washington. In addition, we operate a historic trout hatchery, established in 1938. Our mission is to provide a unique setting where participants can engage in educational experiences, inspiring stewardship.
Volunteers can plan to work on park maintenance projects, including trail work, land restoration, tree planting, and other improvement projects.
Wear work appropriate clothing that will perform well with the winter conditions. We will provide gloves, tools, and snacks. We ask volunteers to bring a water bottle.
Please park in our public parking lot, located off of SE Evergreen Hwy. Once you have parked, you will enter the hatchery complex and follow signs to 'Swift Classroom'.
Project Requirements:
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You must be 7 years of age or older to attend this project; any volunteer under age 16 must attend with a parent or adult chaperone.
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All volunteers under 18 are required to bring a Youth Volunteer Release Form signed by their parent or legal guardian. Please download, complete, and bring this waiver with you on the day of the project.
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If you plan to bring children/additional volunteers you MUST reserve slots for them. The best way to do this is to create a Volunteer Team, then sign up your team for this project. Questions? Email teams@handsonportland.org
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Team Captains are only able to reserve up to 50% of the spots on any individual MLK Weekend of Service Project. Team Captains are required to provide names and email addresses for each team member (over the age of 13) in order to hold spaces on a volunteer project or they may be removed from the project. Questions? Email teams@handsonportland.org
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are responsible for ensuring that everyone signed up through your team attends - only sign up team members who have confirmed their availability. Teams that repeatedly sign up, but do not show up or show up with fewer volunteers than they signed up, may be removed. To add or remove team members from a project: log in to your volunteer account and click "Manage My Team" next to the appropriate upcoming opportunity.
Click "Sign Up" below to reserve your spot! Need help signing up? Call 503-200-3355.
Age Minimum (with Adult): 7+, Minimum Age:18+
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