Fremont Clean and Green to kick off project for Troll Knoll

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Friends of Troll Knoll, Fremont Neighborhood Service Center and the city of Seattle are teaming up this Saturday for the annual Clean and Green in Fremont. They will focus on cleaning up both sides of the green space around the Troll under the Aurora Bridge.

File photo by Michael Harthorne

After a community meeting on how the neighborhood would like to update the infamous Troll site underneath the Aurora Bridge, the Fremont Neighborhood Service Center will be teaming up with city of Seattle for the annual Clean and Green in Fremont this coming weekend.

Kristen Scrivner, a Fremont resident, started an effort in early July to name and clean up the park surrounding the Fremont Troll.

“When I started this project about a year ago I mostly envisioned something on the west side because that's the side the sun hits and it’s a more open area that can be converted to a community space,” Scrivner previously told the Ballard News-Tribune. “But there is quite a lot of land there.

At the committee’s July 15 meeting, about 25 people came to show interest in the project.

Scrivner said they discussed visions for both the east and west sides of the green space; possible names for the site, such as “Troll Knoll” and “The Troll’s Knoll." There was also strong support to clean, maintain and improve the area.

This Saturday, Aug. 22, Scrivner’s committee, now named “Friends of Troll Knoll," the Fremont Neighborhood Service center and the city of Seattle will be providing gloves, tools, rakes, bags and more to clean up both sides of the Troll site on North 36th Street.

Scrivner said they will be removing trash, clearing out undergrowth and dead wood and as well as doing a general clean-up around the Troll.

Friends of Troll Knoll will also have on display, preliminary sketches of plans for the space along with the result of the online survey that was given gather public opinion as to what they would like the park to be named.

The clean up will begin at 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Troll site.

Fremont Troll

Clean and Green

Fremont Neighborhood Service Center