We had our usual “First Saturday” litter collecting volunteers join the effort, some new to our neighborhood Mt. Baker residents, Franklin High School students, and the very supportive, regularly engaged, Pepsi Distributing employees. It is always a pleasure to see so many people engage to make the Rainier Valley shine and be litter free, for at least a little while.

This year, we had an especially large group of employees and their families from Pepsi participate. The Pepsi corporation encourages their employees to spend some time volunteering for the community, and Bridge-2-Beach is one of the main ways they engage. The Mt. Baker Hub Alliance delivers materials to their plant, gathered from the Seattle Adopt-A-Street program at the Rainier Chamber of Commerce. The Pepsi volunteers roam the streets surrounding the plant, moving north from Bayview Ave and MLK Jr. Way S. They are hard to miss wearing the bright red safety vests provided, and carrying the neon yellow litter bags and pickers. This year was their largest volunteer turn out yet, with between 15-20 employees and their family members. They collect over twenty bags of litter!