Service Projects – Page 3 – We Love Our City

Save the Farm — Update!

Two years ago this month, the Save the Farm team (FW Parks Dept, We Love Our City, Todd Beamer DECA, Boy Scouts, Starbucks, and community friends, leaders & family) began working to restore the Hylebos Blueberry Farm. Teams weeded, mowed, fertilized, spread compost& removed blackberries. Hundreds of volunteer hours have paid off! We are delighted to be enjoying a huge crop of berries this year. It’s rewarding to watch our community come and pick berries, enjoy the park and explore the new connector trail (extension of the Hylebos Trail).

Special thanks to Jim & Donna Cox (Light of Christ Community Garden founders and master gardeners) for their guidance and donations of time, fertilizer, and masons bees, and for hosting the pruning event.

COVID-19 Relief Projects

We are currently accepting donations and looking for volunteers for the following!
• Student Feeding Program (local apartments complexes)
• FW Young Life, Young Lives & Capernaum
• FW Senior Center Food Bank
• FW Day Center
• William J Woods Veteran Apartment
• Projecto Honduras
• St. Francis Hospital
• First Responders
• ECEAPS – Head Start Preschool families
• Community Gardens
• Hylebos Blueberry Farm

We are providing a variety of support and donations including gift cards, food, diapers, activities, gift baskets, and more. Contact us directly if you need assistance or if you want to learn how you can get involved. Thank you!

Postponed: Parks Appreciation Day

Saturday, April 18 | 9 am – 12 noon

Postponed until further notice!

Volunteers needed for brush clean–up & litter pick–up.

Free lunch provided to those that pre-register!

Rain or Shine! Bring gloves, wear sturdy shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Tools are available, but extra shovels, gloves, clippers & wheelbarrows needed.

Blueberry Farm Park, 630 S 356th St.
Panther Lake, 550 SW Campus Drive

Pre-register with Derreck Presnell
(253) 835-6961
derreck.presnell@cityoffederalway.com

FW Cares for Kids Holiday Party

Federal Way Cares for Kids is preparing for its 5th Holiday Support Event for Federal Way families.

There are lots of ways to be involved. Check out the Volunteer page for ways to help prior to the event as well as day of. If you would like to make a financial gift, you can do so on the Donate page or by dropping off unwrapped toys at a local SKFR Fire Station.

Annual Mayor’s Day of Concern

September 21, 2019

Thanks to all who volunteered, shopped & donated so generously at the annual Mayors Day of Concern Food Drive. All donations go to the Multi Service Center Food Bank. They do an outstanding job providing support for families, veterans & anyone needing a hand up.