Tag: staff
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@ Work: Windfall
The week’s storm has kept our crews on windfall patrol. This time of year always brings the pain. In the form of fallen trees in inconvenient areas. After major and minor windstorms, or heavy rain, our staff are quite busy removing the obstructions. In the mosaic below are photos posted to issues in SeeClickFix by…
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Field Notes: Dwight’s At Work, So You Can Play
If you’ve set foot in Marymoor Park, you have experienced Dwight’s handiwork. Dwight is a member of your Marymoor Park staff, who are tasked with keeping that massive park clean, safe and open for everyone to enjoy. But Dwight brings a specialization: he’s a one-man-pep-rally-dancing-machine. Dwight has worked for King County Parks for many years as…
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Field Notes: Skill, Craftsmanship, Grit, Sweat…Oh Whatever! Hand Me The GoPro And A Saw
In case we didn’t mention this before, we have a lot of acreage to take care of – like 28,000-plus acres. Every day of the week, y’know those seven, our crews are out there — supporting facilities, fields, trails, off-leash areas and one-another. This-here video is a little slice of daily life for our Small…
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Your King County Parks staff…
Once a year we get together to celebrate our coworkers for their time served as public servants, and give heartfelt goodbyes to those who are retiring after MANY years of service. We love and appreciate all these folks for all they do – and have done – to keep our parks clean, safe and open. By…
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26,000+ acres & flooding is just another day
We know no one wants to be out in our parks when the weather is ugly, but we still have to keep them “clean, safe and open(ish)” during this season. A half-foot of rain or more fell in the foothills of eastern King County Jan. 5th, and that meant major flooding on the Snoqualmie and…
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Aquatic Center getting shipshape
Just because people aren’t swimming right now doesn’t mean this joint isn’t hustling. Construction workers and staff are hard at work, scrubbing the facility, installing solar panels, vents, ducts, ceilings. This place is getting some major love. Seriously, that is our staff hand scrubbing individual tiles. Hard at work, so you can play.
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Field Notes: Employee Appreciation
Today, we here at King County Parks took a moment and gathered our staff from all corners of the county to celebrate a few of our own. We honored 34 staff members who have given 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and 5 years of service to King County. You know where this is going.…
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Rain or shine…
Sweat equity works, people. Washington Trails Association volunteers and King County Parks staff are right now working on the first half of a 600-foot-long elevated boardwalk at Grand Ridge. When completed, this nifty piece of engineering will allow you to get to Duthie without resorting to some kind of MacGyver-inspired pulley system to retrieve your…
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“Hard at work so, you can play” case # 1023
Oh hi I didn’t see you there. This? Oh nothing it’s just our awesome staff (including the ever capable Backcountry Trails Crew) retrofitting a bridge we had built in partnership with the Washington Trails Association a few years ago on the Grand Ridge Trail. Based off of visitor feedback, visitors of the equestrian kind, we…