Thank you for helping clean up the Grover Pedestrian Tunnel and nearby streets and sidewalks on Jan 26. We had 13 plus volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds and ages!

At least 4-5 garbage bags full of trash were collected as well as numerous cartloads of trimmed branches, leaves and other plant foliage. Additionally, violent and offensive graffiti in the Tunnel was painted over and Tunnel was swept clean. We did not remove graffiti on exterior walls of Tunnel parallel to traffic; we hope City and/or ODOT will paint over. Thanks to several volunteers, we did a small repair of chain link fence separating side walk from traffic.

We are in discussion with City to do groundskeeping, especially removing leaves in Tunnel and on streets parallel to Tunnel as well as trimming back invasive ivy. And we hope City will continue to supply free paint for successor program to defunded Metro Recycling Paint Program. We have once again raised the installation of getting improved lighting in Grover Tunnel and any other simple, but effective “hardening” of City/State infrastructure such as Grover Pedestrian Tunnel. Finally, we hope a trash container will be installed as soon as possible, but we thank Quintin Bauer for removing bagged up trash after each volunteer event.

A highlight of event was getting a chance to meet a new volunteer and candidate for a Councilor Position for 4th District, Eli Arnold.