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It’s My Park Day needs you!
You don’t have to go to the gym or run around a track to get a good workout. You can volunteer at a park!
The Austin Parks Foundation is looking for 1,600 people to plant trees, remove non-native plants, clean up trash and do other things to improve Austin’s parks system on It’s My Park Day, March 7.
I try to volunteer every year. I’ve put in shrubs and flowers at the Deep Eddy Bath House, hauled off brush at Pease Park and cleared the bike lane along Great Northern Boulevard in years past. You can choose from 40 projects.
Registration is open at www.austinparks.org.
All volunteers get a T-shirt, snacks and drinks, plus a big helping of gratitude.
Last year, more than 1,550 people worked at 43 park improvement projects, donating more than $60,000 of labor and materials in a single day to the city of Austin parks system.
Lead sponsor is Wheatsville Food Co-op. Other sponsors includeTBG Partners, Jackson Walker LLP, PBS&J, URS, MFI Foundation, Texas Gas Service, Enviromedia Social Marketing, Randall’s, GSD&M Idea City, RGM Advisors, Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects, Grande Communications, Barton Hills Neighborhood Association, Technu Extreme, REI and Hill Country Outdoors.
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