making san diego better

there's a bunch of events coming up where you can donate your time and help make san diego a better place to live. saturday morning i'm joining the audubon folks to help perform restoration work on the san diego river. this involves removing weeds and building a fence to help create a "protective barrier for our coastal dune/strand habitat restoration project" in the south end of mission bay park. 9-12 am saturday,

if pulling weeds out of the muck isn't your thing, but you'd still like to be involved with improving our experience of the san diego river, head over to the communtiy mural project, where you can help work on:

a new professionally designed river mural project. This is a fun and meaningful way to give back to our community and our river through public art.

(9-4 sat/sun).

if you'd like to work a little closer to the urban neighborhoods, then the north park graffiti paint out and removal in a couple of weeks is for you. help this neighborhood on the rebound by wiping out tags. (aug 9).

couldn't get a ticket to the sold out comic-con? see the nerds up close by performing voter registration on behalf of the obama campaign outside the convention. fri-sun, 9-6.

i figured that with the amount of complaining i do about san diego on this blog it would be hypocritical of me not to help out on some of these events. after all, communities only improve when the people living in them have the will to make those changes. so check out some of the volunteer sites out there - volunteer san diego, volunteermatch.org and the city volunteer site are all good resources.