Renton Sartori Grant project featuring Jennifer Knickerbocker, Project Manager

1. Sartori Beautification Project City of Renton Neighborhood Grant Jennifer Knickerbocker & Angela Laulainen Grand writers and Project Managers

2. Our Hope… To beautify Sartori Education Center and create a safer, more welcoming environment for the students and the entire community to enjoy by showing off the charm and uniqueness of this Neighborhood landmark.

3. Our Vision…

4. Work Parties September 10, 11 September 24 January 21 January 7 April 10 November 19, 20 October 8 March 13 March 31 May 9

6. Friends, Neighbors, Church groups, Students, and businesses volunteered their time and worked side-by-side.

7. Clean up crews removed debris, garbage, and dead plants to prepared the site for our new rock garden and picnic area. Volunteers delivered gravel. Neighbors did the back-breaking labor to get it all spread!

9. Volunteers preparing the site where our cement pads will go. The future home of a student and neighborhood seating!

12. Even the little ones helped!

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14. All better!

15. Volunteers We thank you for all of your time and effort to create such a beautiful space.

16. Thank you to the North Renton Neighborhood Association for your support.

17. Marcie Palmer, City Council Member Norma McQuiller, Neigborhood Grant Coordinator … and their families

18. Picnic Tables created by Renton High School Industrial Arts Students

20. Before and After

21. Before: falling fences, weeds, and no privacy for neighbors

22. After: Clean and green

24. Before: over grown and filled with weeds, garbage, and drug paraphernalia. After: clean and green!

25. Before > After!

26. before After!

27. Before: open fencing that was a pass through to the back of a grocery store where drug deals happened day and night. After: landscaped, locked, and added security lights.

28. Before

29. After: Fresh plantings! No garbage! New mulch!

30. Before: the only school in the district to not fly an American flag making the area look abandoned and prime for crime. After: Beautiful And Respectful!

31. Back of the school before: a dumping ground for waste. Weeds and metal fence parts. Drug deals and gang activity.

32. Back of the school after: Seating areas, path way in stone, greenery, and eating area for students and staff (with a much needed garbage can).

33. Before: A school building that appeared to be abandoned causing neighborhood blight including gang activity, drug deals, and low student participation.

34. After: Beautiful. A school to be proud of.

35. Sartori is now a focal point of the Neighborhood where the Community gathers…

36. for Evening Games …

38. For YMCA…

40. For Neighborhood Picnics …

44. Just for a place to rest and enjoy the neighborhood…

47. For National Night Out…

48. Ribbon Cutting Celebration

49. Thank you, City of Renton, For your commitment to The North Renton Neighborhood Community! “ Things Ain’t What They Used To Be” by Duke Ellington Performed by the Rose Hill Junior High Jazz Band Directed by Angela Laulainen