{"id":13576,"date":"2012-07-19T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/homeowners-city-make-environmental-improvement\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T04:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:35:30","slug":"homeowners-city-make-environmental-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/homeowners-city-make-environmental-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners, city make environmental improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kenton Firs Neighborhood Association \u2013\u00a0in partnership with VetsCorps volunteers  \u2013 recently logged hundreds of hours grubbing, cleaning, pruning and clearing a community greenbelt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>More than 50 people \u2013\u00a0young and old \u2013 were part of the work group. Families, grandparents with grandchildren, relatives and friends also turned out to help.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kenton Firs turned its annual spring cleanup into a partnership with the city of Kent Neighborhood grant program with the goal to reclaim a common area from invasive plants and restore a natural habitat at the corner of 113th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 227th Place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Matching funds from Kenton Firs garnered a $5,000 neighborhood grant from the city.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Board member Marsha St. Louis conducted the environmental research and drew up the plan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Besides environmental stewardship, the project is designed to improve safety and security in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>An additional work day is being scheduled to complete the project.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenton Firs Neighborhood Association \u2013 in partnership with VetsCorps volunteers \u2013 recently logged hundreds of hours grubbing, cleaning, pruning and clearing a community greenbelt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}