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April Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
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April Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for April. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 02:00 pm
Location: 2007 E Fair Avenue
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Neighborhood pick up litter in streets/alleys to beautify the community.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 583-2469
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Alley between 36XX-37XX Juniata and Hartford Streets, 63116
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Spring Clean Extravaganza Alley Blitz in Tower Grove Heights, STL
Saturday April 17, 9:30-12:30
36XX-37XX Juniata and Hartford Streets, STL, 63116
Starting from the S Grand end.
Can you join us for an hour or two between 9:30 – 12:30 on Saturday, April 17? Any amount of time you can help would be appreciated!
The Block Captains will bring tools and trash bags (from BrightsideSTL). You bring your kids, face masks, gloves, enthusiasm.
Together, we can clean our alley in a safe, socially distanced way.
The benefits: a clean alley deters wrongdoing, such as incorrect dumping of rubbish, as well as being healthier and safer. And volunteers will feel empowered and glad of a job well done.
No registration is necessary – just show up.
Email to Volunteer: nigel@hollowayforum.com
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 10AM
Location: 2PM
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: BPWNA is hosting a neighborhood cleanup day based at Our Neighborhood Garden on Nebraska @ Wyoming.
Stop by the garden from 10am to 2pm for supplies, snacks and, if needed, suggestions of where to clean.
Bring your own gear or borrow ours. We will provide trash bags.
After volunteering, drop off any borrowed tools and tell us how it went while you enjoy a drink back at the garden.
All ages are welcome!
Attendees will be entered in a drawing for a $25 Visa gift card.
Email to Volunteer: godwin.erin@gmail.com
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 8:30am
Location: Bellerive Boulevard at Virginia, in Carondelet 63111
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Friends of Bellerive Blvd clean up will take place Saturday, April 17th at 8:30. Volunteers can meet at the east end of the Bellerive park blocks, where Bellerive meets Virginia. All supplies will be provided.
Email to Volunteer: hstout93@yahoo.com
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 10 - 2pm
Location: 4265 Cook avenue
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: We are seeking volunteers who love getting dirty by gardening!
Veteran Women of Influence and the Vandeventer Neighborhood have opened its garden space for Spring 2021 and we are seeking volunteers to help in every way possible.
We have weekends available (see the flyer) and we have open slots for weekdays as well for those who aren't available weekends.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 583-5273
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 10am to 2pm
Location: 4101 Cleveland
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Hello, it’s spring and that’s the best time to clean up and beautify the Shaw Dog Park. If you can help pick up, pull weeds, trim bushes, and shovel mud and dirt please feel free to stop by on April 17, 2021 between 10am to 2pm. I’ll see you there.
Email to Volunteer: shawdogpark@shawstlouis.org
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 8am - 12pm
Location: Switzer & North Broadway
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Baden Neighborhood Cleanup. Please contact Gloria Gooden-
580-6811 to volunteer
Call to Volunteer: (314) 580-6811
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 8:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 300 Block of Christian ave
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Saturday, April 17, 2021 will be a neighborhood cleanup day. A great Opportunity to Meet Your Neighbors, Beautify your Blocks, Alleys and Properties.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 824-8056
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: West End Neighborhood
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: The West End Neighbors Association is hosting an event open to anyone who would like to assist West End Neighborhood residents in picking up litter and illegally dumped trash within its boundaries. The area consists of Delmar Blvd to the south, Page Blvd to the north, Union Ave to the east, and Hodiamont Ave to the west. Any help would be very much appreciated, and we look forward to working with you to to clean up the West End and Visitation Park Neighborhoods.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 629-1321
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 9am-3pm
Location: 4220 N Grand Blvd. 63107
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Volunteer with our residents and helping clean up the alley.
Email to Volunteer: miajones@stpatrickcenter.org
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 5-7PM
Location: Cherokee Street (starting at Cherokee & Iowa)
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Join your Cherokee Street neighbors for a neighborhood clean up! We'll be meet at the Earthbound Beer patio to gather supplies, setting out to pick up litter on and around Cherokee and coming back to enjoy a free beer back on the patio for Trashy Hour!
Email to Volunteer: emily@cherokeestreet.com
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 9:00 am
Location: 4044 Park Avenue
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: BOTANICAL HEIGHTS SPRING CLEAN UP AT WILLERT HOME PRODUCTS!
Call to Volunteer: (314) 518-1614
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 9:30-11:30
Location: West Pine-Laclede Neighborhood Assn.
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Spring Clean Up of West Pine Laclede Neighborhood
litter pic up along Forest Park Ave., Laclede, West Pine
Sat., April 24 9:30-11:30am
(raindate: Sun , April 25, 9:30-11:30)
Email to Volunteer: suenauert@gmail.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 9:30am-12pm
Location: Dutchtown
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Meet at Thomas Thomas Dunn Learning Center at 3113 Gasconade 63118. Light snacks will be available and volunteers will receive an Earth Day Celebration Kit. Register at dutchtownstl.org/earthday.
Email to Volunteer: agfair13@gmail.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 8AM - 12PM
Location: Compton Heights
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: In conjunction with the South Grand EcoCrew Beautification Day and Confluence Trash Bash event, the Compton Heights Neighborhood Benefit Association is sponsoring this expanded cleanup in our neighborhood - we will be picking up trash and beautifying the medians and sidewalks along Grand Blvd., as well as working on beautification in the alleyways and along the streetscapes of the other streets in Compton Heights (Hawthorne, Longfellow, Milton, Accomac, Russell, Allen, & Geyer).
Email to Volunteer: beautification@comptonheights.org
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 11-2
Location: Labadie and Greer- alley
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Join Kingsville Neighborhood Assoc. to help cleanup the alley between Labadie and Greer (4700-4800 hundred block). If it rains, we will cancel.
Email to Volunteer: armartin57@yahoo.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 9-1pm
Location: 3948 W Florissant
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Fairground Neighborhood Earth Day Community Garden beautification and Neighborhood cleanup.
Email to Volunteer: lillie.clay@att.net
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 8 am to 12 pm
Location: Gravois Park
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Hi, we like to clean up the allies in Gravois Park. Just bring yourself, gloves and a mask!
Email to Volunteer: kirstenpetty79@gmail.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 11 AM
Location: 2 PM
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Come join the DeSales Young Ambassadors and the Fox Park Neighborhood Association to help clean up and beautify our neighborhood! If you live nearby or play at Fox Park, meet us there on April 24th at 11 AM! Delicious coffee from Kitchen House will be waiting for you!
Email to Volunteer: kate@desalescd.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 11:30
Location: Fairgrounds neighborhood
Project Type: Clean-up & beautification
Description: Clean community and help plant to bring beautiful environment.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 319-0266
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 9:30-11:30
Location: West Pine-Laclede Neighborhood Assn.
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: Neighborhood Clean-up Sat., April 24, 9:30-11:30 (raindate: April 25)
Meet at Laclede-Boyle Community Garden
Bring work gloves (brooms, dustpans optional)
Email to Volunteer: suenauert@gmail.com
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: West End Neighborhood
Project Type: Clean-up project
Description: The West End Neighbors Association is hosting an event open to anyone who would like to assist West End Neighborhood residents in picking up litter and illegally dumped trash within its boundaries. The area consists of Delmar Blvd to the south, Page Blvd to the north, Union Ave to the east, and Hodiamont Ave to the west. Any help would be very much appreciated, and we look forward to working with you to to clean up the West End and Visitation Park Neighborhoods.
Call to Volunteer: (314) 629-1321
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