The 2017 edition of Stand Together Week has officially commenced, as players from the Portland Timbers, Thorns FC and T2 worked alongside club staff, fans and volunteers around the city.
Sunday’s projects featured Timbers’ Gbenga Arokoyo working in the garden with IRCO Gilbert Park SUN School and community ambassador Jack Jewsbury and Timber Joey helped clean books at The Children’s Book Bank. Jewsbury also joined volunteers from Hampton Lumber to work on their green thumb at Timber Jim’s Garden in the Tualatin Schoolhouse Food Pantry.
On Monday, volunteers from New Relic and Daimler will join owner Merritt Paulson, Timbers' Jack Barmby, T2 head coach Andrew Gregor and players Wade Hamilton, Shaquille Jimenez and Omar Mohamed to assist SOLVE remove non-native invasive plants from Mary S.