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Great Rivers Greenway Trash Pick Up Event
Great Rivers Greenway Trash Pick Up Event In partnership with community members on the City’s north side, Great Rivers Greenway is organizing a volunteer trash pick-up event. On Saturday, June 11 from […]
Brightside Family Fun Day
Brightside Family Fun Day Sunday June 5 | 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Brightside Demonstration Garden 4646 Shenandoah Ave 63110 | Free admission Families are invited to learn about our […]
May Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
May 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 May. Opportunities are updated as […]
Volunteers Bring the Demo Garden to Life
Volunteers Bring the Demo Garden to Life While Brightside’s programs have evolved over the years, our commitment to creating a cleaner, greener, more sustainable St. Louis has remained constant. In […]
Clean-ups to Daffodils
Clean-ups to Daffodils Since 1982, Brightside and volunteers have been working hard to clean up neighborhoods. Over time, we quickly learned that cleaning up wasn’t enough. We needed to do more […]
A Blast From the Past: Project Greenlot
A Blast From the Past: Project Greenlot In 1982, St. Louis had thousands of overgrown vacant lots filled with fallen buildings and dumped debris. To address this destabilizing environmental injustice, […]
Looking Back at Project Mainstreet
Looking Back at Project Mainstreet This popular and well-remembered program ran for more than 20 years. Project Mainstreet youths focused on cleaning up along major thoroughfares while learning important job […]
40 Years of Blitz Clean-ups!
40 Years of Blitz Clean-ups! In honor of Brightside’s 40th anniversary, we will be sharing special stories and photos since 1982 to help celebrate the hard work St. Louisans have […]