Volunteers Wanted: It's My Park! Day, Saturday, May 16
Submitted by ioby on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 14:52
This Saturday, May 16 is It's My Park! Day. Get outside and get in your park!
On ioby.org donors have already funded one It's My Park! Day project -- removing debris and planting flowers at the Veteran's Square and Vietnam Memorial on Sunrise Highway in Rosedale, Queens. Another -- It's My Park! Day at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side/Chinatown -- needs to raise $345 for plants to plant around the park that day. Support this project with your donation by clicking here.
For those of you looking for ideas on how to spend your Saturday, check your neighborhood park and get outside! You can learn tree care techniques in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, contact Dylan House at Hester Street Collaborative for more info. You can plant trees at Randall's Island from 10am-2:30pm, contact Anandi at info@earthdayny.org for more information. You can clean up trash and plant flowers at the Veteran's Memorial in Queens with the Cornucopia Society and the Queens Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces at Sunrise Highway, Francis Lewis Blvd and 246 street.
For more It's My Park! Day activities check out the Partnership for Parks website. I know there are also great activities at Travers Park in Queens and Brook Park in the South Bronx. If these are in your neighborhood, please contact Friends of Travers Park and Friends of Brook Park for details. If anyone else has It's My Park! Day info, leave a comment here.
Hey Volunteers! It's Your
Hey Volunteers! It's Your Park!
It's My Park Day at Sara D. Roosevelt Park is Saturday May 16th, 11 am - 2 pm
Want to donate your time and join Hester Street Collaborative to beautify the park and teach community members about caring for its trees?
Contact Dylan House at dylan@hesterstreet.org to get involved. All are welcome!
Brook Park South, South
Brook Park
South, South Bronx
141st Street and Brook avenue
Dig your hands in the Earth, celebrate Spring! We invite you to join us in giving active and loving care to our Brook Park. We welcome both skilled and unskilled alike to join our team in making improvements to our physical environment. Depending on needs at the time and the uniqueness of the group, we will tackle a variety of tasks and/or a joint project. Please join us for a fun period of service through focused and joyful work.
It's Our park day with NYC Parks and Rec and Partnerships for Parks! with volunteers from ASPIRA and more.
We need volunteer leaders, you know who you are! Heavy rain cancels. Some activities will include: Plant trees! and shrubs! Spread woodchips. Chop wood. Consolidate Compost! Other fun stuff!
Please let us know if you are intending to participate and sign up through our website via the Volunteer section http://friendsofbrookpark.org/volunteer
It's My Park Day at Randall's
It's My Park Day at Randall's Island!
Saturday, May 16th from 10:00AM to 2:30PM
Join Earth Day New York's Nurturing Nature Program in greening the Big Apple!
Please register with Anandi (anandi @earthdayny.org)
As part of Randall’s Island Sports Foundation master plan, 65 ball fields and soccer fields are in the process of being built. As a result, many trees have been removed in order to make way for the fields. We are now planting thousands of new trees on the island to create recreation areas. Volunteers will plant 10 ft. trees along the waterfront site. Volunteers will be instructed in how to measure the depth of the hole, add compost to hole and make a “well” around the base of the tree, once it is planted.
There are lots more
There are lots more activities on Saturday's It's My Park Day! Check out the website to find an activity in your neighborhood:
http://www.itsmypark.org/impd/details.html
I am doing a shoreline clean up in Astoria Park. Here are the details for that:
Astoria Park, 10am - 3pm
Volunteers needed for shoreline clean-up. Activities include arts & crafts, a recycling workshop and the second annual “It’s My Park Day Scavenger Hunt.” Scavenger hunt participants ride their bikes along the greenway and collect points to lead their team to victory! To register for scavenger hunt, email Taryn.Cunha@mattel.com. Projects and events coordinated by Forest Hills High School – Academy of Public Service, Long Island City Community Boathouse, Children for Children, Green Shores NYC, Astoria Park Alliance, Council on the Environment of NYC – Office of Recycling Outreach & Education and Transportation Alternatives. From 1pm to 3pm, City Parks Foundation will provide free tennis lessons.
Location: World War II Memorial in park, along Shore Blvd.
By Subway: N/W to Ditmars Boulevard. Walk 10 blocks west to Shore Boulevard, walk south to World War II Memorial.
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