Do you love Clark Park and want to help tidy it up for the summer? Here’s a fun opportunity for volunteering on Saturday, April 19, from 12 – 3 p.m.. The Fairmount Park Conservancy will be conducting a spring clean-up at the park in honor of Earth Day and volunteer help will be greatly appreciated. Help is needed with such activities as leaf raking, branch collecting, flower and tree planting, mulching, trash and debris removal, weeding, and sweeping.
But here’s the fun part: The first 30 volunteers at the clean-up event will receive gifts such as a daypack, aluminum water bottle, locally-sourced bandana and – for those aged 21 or over – three wooden nickel tokens, each good for a pint at the after-party. The party will be held at Local 44, a neighborhood pub specializing in craft beer, and will include free samples of Local 44’s comfort food. The after-party is sponsored by Great Lakes Brewing Company.
If all this sounds pretty good to you, go here to sign up.
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 worldwide.
UPDATE (4/16/2014): There has been a great response to this volunteer opportunity and there are no more “free beer” spots available, according to the Great Lakes Brewing Co. Earth Day website. But all volunteer help is appreciated.
April 15th, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Sounds like an awesome deal ! Hoping for a great turnout. Folks, please tell the powers- that-be (UCD? FOCP?) that Clark Park needs as many (if not more) RECYCLE bins as trash bins!!! Did you see the state of things after that beautiful day we had Saturday? Awful awful awful. And the trash wasn’t bagged until Monday. RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE!
Here’s to a successful Saturday clean-up!
April 16th, 2014 at 2:24 pm
This is a great idea! Would it be possible for West Philly home gardeners to take home bags of raked leaves?
April 17th, 2014 at 9:40 am
Sonia, I think that would be completely fine! There are quite a few leaves to be raked out of the garden beds and near the basketball court.
Lin, the trash situation was discussed at length at last night’s FoCP membership meeting. This weekend was certainly a doozy for the park!
April 17th, 2014 at 10:02 am
Thanks, Sonia. I hope they are considering adding recycle containers next to every lone trash receptacle. I would keep in mind that it should be just as easy to discard a recyclable as it is trash. Too many folks won’t go out of their way to walk to a recycle bin when there’s a trash can closer by. In a perfect world we would take our trash & recycling home with us! I wonder if all of the loose trash and recycling (on the ground) got sorted out, or if it wound up bagged together, destined for the landfill.
cheers.