Tag: appreciation
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“Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!” – Walt Whitman
We like to believe that keeping our parks clean, safe and open is doing a service to our community. We get up every morning and go to work for an agency we truly believe in. Admittedly though, you can put your head down and just get caught up in the day to day. It’s mail like…
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Field notes: South Utility/Mow Crew – At work, so you can play
Every once in a while someone takes time out of their busy schedule to send props to our crews and the work that they do. We forward these to the teams, but they don’t check mail much, because they are usually on to the next project. So instead of feeling like we just awkwardly missed…
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Field Notes: AmeriCorps + King County Parks: The beginning of something beautiful
Today, King County Parks is saying goodbye to our first AmeriCorps individual placement service volunteer, Rachel Maranto, who has worked with our Volunteer Program for the past 10 months. Coming to the Pacific Northwest from Indiana to work at EarthCorps then AmeriCorps, Rachel had a strong educational background in natural science and a passion for…