Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, October 10 @ 10 AM

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening and Tree Watering on October 10 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community. We'll have snacks and beverages.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Monthly Meeting Wednesday, October 7 @ 6 PM

Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the First Wednesday of every month ~


Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

Agenda
California Coastal Cleanup Day wrapup
Watering trees/plants
Transportation Projects in Rose Creek Watershed
Additional items TBA


For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

Rose Creek Watershed Alliance Meeting - Oct 5

The Rose Creek Watershed Alliance is convening a meeting on Monday, October 5 from 6:30 PM to 8 PM at Standley Recreation Center in University City. (3585 Governor Drive, San Diego, CA 92122, (858) 552-1652)

Our focus will be on transportation projects being proposed for the watershed. We hope to have a representative from the California High Speed Rail project for the first 30 minutes of the meeting to present a project overview.

We are also setting aside time to talk amongst ourselves on how to respond to the situation at hand.

For more information on the Rose Creek Watershed Alliance, click here. Or email info@rosecreekwatershed.org.

Coastal Cleanup Day Volunteer Thank You

A bit thanks to Campland on the Bay and Henry's Marketplace in Pacific Beach for providing our volunteers with ice cream and fruit. We had 70 people turn out to pick up nearly a ton of trash from Rose Creek.

You helped keep more trash out of the "Garbage Patch" in the Pacific Ocean that's as large as the United States. For more info on marine debris, click here.

Here's the update from the local cleanup day coordinators':

On behalf of I Love A Clean San Diego and San Diego Coastkeeper, we would like to sincerely thank you for your involvement in the 25^th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) in San Diego County.

Site captains show steadfast enthusiasm and stewardship, without which the event would not be possible. Thanks to your endeavors, we were able to properly honor the 25^th anniversary of CCD with a 25% increase in volunteer support from last year! Your San Diego County Coordinators are thrilled to have worked with each of you as well as the 10,143 volunteers that took to the beaches, bays, canyons, rivers, creeks, and urban areas resulting in a cleaner and greener community. This combined effort prevented an astounding 133,453 pounds of debris from continuing to contaminate the outdoors that we strive to protect each year through this event.

Not only did you partake in a countywide environmental feat locally, you added to the success of a statewide event that hosted a total of 74,724 volunteers that removed over one million pounds of debris from close to 1,000 locations. The State of California in only one part of the International Coastal Cleanup, which took place in all 50 states, 5 U.S. territories, and 104 countries for a united worldwide effort to support our shared ocean. Everyone involved in this far-reaching event deserves a resounding thank you on behalf of our oceans, communities, and environment.

For more information on the overall event, we invite you to visit this year

Rose Creek Cleanup for Coastal Cleanup Day

25th Anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day
Saturday, September 19th, 2009 - 9am to 12 noon

Join the Friends of Rose Creek, San Diego Coastkeeper and I Love a Clean San Diego as we clean up Rose Creek. After the Cleanup join us for an Ice Cream Social provided by Campland on the Bay (Thank you!). Meet at Mission Bay High School (Faculty/East parking lot) in Pacific Beach. 2475 Grand Avenue. A great big shout out to Henry's Marketplace in Pacific Beach for kicking down fruit for cleanup volunteers.

Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. We will be providing water and some gloves; however, volunteers are welcome to bring extra water and strongly encouraged to bring heavy-duty work or gardening gloves as we won't have enough for everyone. We are hoping to send a crew into an area of the creek with Poison Oak. If you're interested in pulling trash out of the jungle, please wear long sleeves and volunteer for Poison Oak territory.

We'll be cleaning up Rose Creek between Mission Bay High School and Mission Bay Drive as well as a site along Santa Fe Street if we get enough volunteers. - click here to sign up and preregister. If you're not preregistered, please come 15 minutes early.

This is a great opportunity to obtain community service hours for students and learn about wetlands eco-systems.

Special Volunteer needs: We need someone with a pickup truck who can help haul trash from various points along the creek to our dumpster. We also could use someone with a mini-van to drive a crew of volunteers up to a site along Santa Fe Street that is over a mile away.

Check back for more info as we get closer to the event.

This year marks the 25th Anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) - that's 25 years of protecting and restoring our beautiful California communities! San Diego Coastkeeper and I Love A Clean San Diego, in partnership with the California Coastal Commission, will continue to coordinate San Diego's largest volunteer event in support of the marine environment. The mission of CCD is to engage people to remove debris from the California's beaches and waterways; to identify the sources of marine debris; and ultimately change the behaviors that cause pollution.

Monthly Meeting, Sept 2 @ 6 PM (NEW DAY)

Inviting all residents, business owners, recreational users and others who have an interest in Rose Creek.

~ We meet the First Wednesday of every month ~ NOTE: This is a change in week of month!


Pacific Beach Recreation Center, 1405 Diamond Street (one block south of Ingraham @ Gresham/Diamond) Enter on Gresham St.

Agenda
California Coastal Cleanup Day
Watering trees/plants
Transportation Projects in Rose Creek
Additional items TBA


For more information, contact Karin 858-405-7503.

Native Plant Weed & Water Saturday, September 12 @ 10 AM

The Nature School - Native Plant Garden Maintenance *

Join us for Native Plant Gardening and Tree Watering on Saturday September 12 from 10 AM until noon.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 10 AM until Noon while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering and planting native species and get involved with your creek and your community. We'll have snacks and beverages.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. More information Karin Zirk 858-405-7503 or kzirk@earthlink.net

* Part of the Rose Creek Wetlands & Salt Marsh Restoration and Nature Education Preserve project by The Nature Institute. New habitat restoration supported by The Nature Institute and the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept.

Native Plant Watering Party - Saturday, Sept 26 @ 10 AM

10 Am until Noon!

We've got 9 trees and a heap of coastal sage scrub plants that need water. If you've been wanting to help out, we can really use your help this weekend.

Meet behind the Rose Creek Cottage 2525 Garnet Ave in Pacific Beach. Park on Fogg Street just South of Garnet.

Easy one to two hours project - great for children of all ages. However, due to liability concerns, all minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event.

Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves.