Grab your gardening gloves and come help spruce up Bergen Place Park.
In conjunction with Tuesdays in Ballard, the community is invited to join the Friends of Bergen Place Park work party this evening at 22nd Ave NW and NW Market St. The work party runs from six to eight this evening. Violinists Juanita Holmes and Debbie Palmer will provide music at the park.
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First chase out the littering bums.
Grab your gloves indeed. Might be a good idea before sticking your hands in any of the bushes.
“boo hoo! somebody else do something for me before I lift a finger to help myself.”
there. i fixed that for you.
I love these events, and will participate. You are part of the solution, or you are part of the problem.
you're either with us or against us? why does that sound strangely familiar?
I agree with David. I don't think he's whining. He's being realistic. Let's make it safe before we beautify it. My kids used to play there, but it is not as safe as it once was.
Really? If we don't come clean up the mess bums leave behind we are equal to them?
Some of us work you know, to pay taxes, to build homes so that bums can sit around and drink all day. Then we try to raise our kids properly so they won't turn into bums.
Thanks to those who do clean up and remember to wear gloves that needles can't penetrate.
You sound like a horrible father. Try teaching your kids some compassion.
First don't expect any Ballard idiots to comprehend complicated social issues.
You forgot to add a hateful comment about the homeless.
David can teach you to hate them, just as he teaches his kids to do the same.
Compassion for bums = stupidity.
I don't say a thing about bums, I'll let my kids learn about bums by teaching them the value of hard work, moderation and responsibility. The rest they will learn themselves when they get older and see those around them that don't value self-respect and personal responsibility.
Make it safe how? Why not try USING it. For all of the whining about bums I read, I just don't get how you people get through your days. I have no problems in our neighborhood parks. If more people just went out and used the parks instead of whining about who is using them instead you'd be a lot happier.
lol…what a crank.
Maybe you should spend some time in a park. Soon.
You're welcome.
“If we don't come clean up the mess bums leave behind we are equal to them?”
I didn't say that, but will add that bums aren't the only ones who leave trash in our parks. Some of it is from those kids that you do so well in raising. Perhaps including the importance of community service would help that some.
Why don't you invite Rick Friedhoff or MJ Kiser of Compass Housing (206-357-3100) to help, or Bill Block of the Committee to End Homelessness (206-725-4152), or Jean Darsie of the Ballard Coalition on Housing for All (206) 782-0788. Since they are so pro-homeless, let's have them come out and clean up some of the mess the homeless make. I doubt if Rick has this opportunity from his home in Laurelhurst or whether or not Bill has to clean up around his home in Mt. Baker or our neighbor Jean who lives down on the water in North Beach. Not only do they want the good people of Ballard to welcome the homeless to Ballard, they also want us to clean up after them.
This is a great community activity, and a show of positive community spirit that no one could possibly dislike!
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Oh. Look, folks. Trotting out anti-homeless rhetoric in a thread like this is just as tired as ranting about Missing Link in a thread about the Inca Trail. Off-topic ranting makes this community less interesting.
your kids used to play at Bergen Place? seems like a strange place for kids to play, what with busy streets surrounding what amounts to a tiny amount of paving.
maybe a place to play chess or set.
and where are the “bums” when it comes to community service? it takes two ya know.
when i have “used” one, the profanity is not background noise i like to hear. and that doesn't necessarily always come from the aforementioned crowd so don't belittle me on that point. next?
Totally agree. I've long said that community service should be required of those seeking community services. Join the call, please.
If those bums weren't all memebers of the BCoC, I would help clean their mess up.
I recommend the the Bergen workers use massive amounts of Bum Repellent™ and a clothespin on the nose.
Closing the Chai House has helped clean some of the hobos, neo-hippies and Mr. President groupies out.
new mural…that thing is brutal.