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Kiwanis Club leads One Day cleanup at Lynnwood trail

Published 1:30 am Friday, April 14, 2017

By Herald Staff

Kiwanis Club leads One Day cleanup at Lynnwood trail
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Kiwanis Club leads One Day cleanup at Lynnwood trail
Lynnwood Kiwanis and Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace Key Club members cleared a half-football field of invasive plants on the Mesika Trail in Lynnwood. (Contributed photo)
Kiwanis Club of Lynnwood members (from left) Bill Temple, David Little and Ron Swengel pause in their “workout” of pulling English ivy on the Mesika Trail in Lynnwood. (Contributed photo)

It was a One Day event — with a lot more than one day’s worth of work getting done, thanks to a host of volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of Lynnwood and the Kiwanis-affiliated Lynnwood High School Key Club and Mountlake Terrace High School Key Club.

The group on April 1 removed about 30 wheelbarrows worth of English ivy, Himalayan blackberries and fallen branches from the Mesika trail on the Lynnwood Civic Center campus. The work revealed a cedar tree, rhododendron and Oregon grape that had been smothered by the invasive plants.

“This is when we get our hands dirty and get out in nature,” said David Little, the One Day chairman for the club. “It was Lynnwood helping Lynnwood.”

The Kiwanis Club helped develop the trail, in 1995.

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