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Help weed out the watershed
Photo courtesy Ethan Whitecotton/NCLC
Volunteers by a pile of policeman’s helmet.
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SEASIDE – Volunteers
can participate in a day of
weeding at Circle Creek
Conservation Center from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday,
July 20.
North Coast Land Con-
servancy is in the fi nal phase
of a three-year assault on the
weed known as policeman’s
helmet in the Necanicum
River watershed.
Policeman’s helmet
(impatiens glandulifera),
a highly invasive non-na-
tive plant, has taken hold
throughout the Necani-
cum watershed, choking out
native plants and reducing
plant and animal diversity
while increasing the risk of
streambank erosion.
Policeman’s helmet is
named for the shape of the
blossom, which resem-
bles an old-fashioned Brit-
ish policeman’s headwear.
It is native to the Himalayas
and was introduced in North
America as an ornamental
garden plant but has since
spread widely.
NCLC and the Necan-
icum Watershed Council
have been working together
to remove this fast-grow-
ing, fast-spreading plant
and replace it with native
vegetation.
Volunteers will be work-
ing with NCLC’s summer
stewardship interns hired
to eradicate these and other
weeds found on the Neca-
nicum and lower Columbia
rivers.
Policeman’s helmet is
easy to pull; the next step is
to pile uprooted plants and
stomp on them to crush the
stems and prevent the seed
pods from developing or
maturing.
For more informa-
tion, visit NCLCtrust.org/
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Cafe.
Fix broken items for free at Repair Café
ASTORIA – Get help
fi xing household items
for free at Repair Café,
Wednesday, July 24, at
1010 Duane Street from 6
to 8 p.m. Guests are invited
to bring items in need of
repair to the event, where
they will receive expert
advice and assistance from
volunteers.
Repair Café’s goal is to
keep repairable objects out
of the local landfi ll. Partici-
pants are invited to sign in,
weigh their repairable items
and understand guidelines
before being assigned to a
repair volunteer.
The event takes place
on the fourth Wednesday
of every month. Frequent
objects include bicycles,
toys, clothing, scissors,
knives, household appli-
ances, garden tools and
more. Gas engines are not
allowed.
For more information,
contact Daryl at 503-307-
0834 or follow Repair Asto-
ria on Facebook: facebook.
com/RepairAstoria.