Beautify the Park 2

updated: Friday, February 03, 2012

Help plant flower gardens in city parks
Volunteers are needed in mid-May to help beautify our city by planting flowers in park gardens. Planting a garden usually takes one to three hours. If you would like to help, please call the Volunteer Office. The city gardener will work out a planting schedule and flower delivery with you when the flowers arrive in mid-May.

Resources/Maintenance volunteer needed
Enjoy puttering? Like to fix things? Plant trees?

Consider volunteering at the beautiful Westwood Hills Nature Center. Volunteers are always needed for help with fixit projects, preparing for seasonal programs, planting and watering trees and the list goes on! Help out in one- to two-hour blocks of time, minimum of four hours a month.

Cleaning up Creekside

Approximately 150 people came out (far beyond the city's expectations and twice as many as those who preregistered) to clean up the creek, with folks as diverse as our Parks and Recreation Advisory Commissioners, St. Louis Park High School girls' Lacrosse team, two Boy Scout troops, several businesses and many individual residents. Park Commissioners, along with staff, lead groups to different areas of the creek to maximize the effectiveness of the clean-up. There was a great deal of debris collected.

The response of participants was terrific and kept growing throughout the three-hour event. There was enough time and volunteers to move away from the creek and clean-up a section of the nearby SW Regional Trail (west from Louisiana Avenue to the City of Hopkins border).

Questions? Please contact Jim Vaughan at (952) 924-2699.

Pick up the Park!
Help clean our city before the busy summer season; call the Volunteer Office and sign up to help Pick up the Park! Businesses, civic groups, families and individuals can volunteer. You will be assigned an area to clean and be provided with instructions and a garbage bag. Park clean-up should take place between early April and mid-May on the day of your choice.

Sign up today to help by contacting Sarah Krzesowiak at the City and School Volunteer Office, (952) 928-6025, krzesowiak@slpschools.org.