Sartori Beautification Project

City of Renton Neighborhood GrantJennifer Knickerbocker & Angela Laulainen

Grand writers and Project Managers

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.

Our Vision…

Work Parties

September 10, 11

September 24

January 21January 7

April 10

November 19, 20October 8

March 13

March 31

May 9

Friends, Neighbors, Church groups, Students, and

businesses volunteered their time and worked side-by-

side.

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!

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

Even the little ones helped!

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All better!

Volunteers

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

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

Marcie Palmer, City Council

MemberNorma McQuiller, Neigborhood Grant Coordinator … and their

families

Picnic Tables created byRenton High School

Industrial Arts Students

•Sartori Education Center Students and Staff members

•Seattle Missionaries for the Church of the Latter Day Saints

•Renton School District Maintenance & Grounds, Supervised by Joe Lamborn & Tony Harrah

•Peter Schoonmaker & Tina Underdahl, principals at Sartori Education Center & their families

•Members of the Moms Club of Renton

•Local Neighbors, Family & Friends

Before and After

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

After: Clean and green

Before: over grown and filled with weeds, garbage, and drug paraphernalia.

After: clean and green!

Before > After!

before

After!

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.

Before

After: Fresh plantings! No garbage! New mulch!

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!

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

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).

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

After: Beautiful. A school to be proud of.

Sartori is now a focal point

of the Neighborhood where the Community

gathers…

for Evening Games …

For YMCA…

For Neighborhood Picnics …

Just for a place to rest and enjoy the neighborhood…

For National Night Out…

Ribbon Cutting Celebration

Thank you, City of Renton, For your commitment to

The North Renton NeighborhoodCommunity!

“Things Ain’t What They Used To Be”by Duke Ellington

Performed by the Rose Hill Junior High Jazz BandDirected by Angela Laulainen