Parks Appreciation Day Volunteer Opportunities
If you enjoy using Tacoma’s parks, next weekend is a great opportunity to give back.
Metro Parks’ Parks Appreciation Day gives the community an opportunity to show up en masse at our neighborhood parks to prune, rake, pick-up, and plant the public spaces we’ll get to enjoy all summer. Volunteers are invited to show up in work clothes, friends and personal tools in tow (optional), and join in the effort to improve Tacoma’s parks.
In 2011 an estimated 1,000 people volunteered, with Metro Parks on Parks Appreciation Day. County-wide the numbers were higher, and the work accomplished was impressive; over 200 cubic yards of debris removed, including more than 150 bags of litter. Gravel, mulch and chips were spread, and over 2,000 plants were planted. We don’t have statistics on how many people had a great time, but we’re guessing the numbers were pretty good for that, too.
Parks Appreciation Day
When: Saturday, April 21, 9:00 a.m. – noon
Where: Participating parks.
Details: www.parksappreciationday.net
3 comments
T TacomaMike April 12, 2012
It looks like there’s at least one park the public won’t be able to appreciate, thanks to WSDOT’s stupid and ugly fences … “Save Pugnetti Park”. Your readers can Google it. Recently the Fife Free Press wrote an editorial about the naming of a local park, and the editorial was titled “Place Names Add Depth, Character to Community”. If we lose THIS park, Tacoma and our community will only lose a small park, but it will also lose a large part of its character and dishonor its history in the process.
N NEAL April 12, 2012
Thanks, TacomaMIke
It came up as part of the Parks Board Meeting on Monday night, and there are people in the community that are very keen to keeping it as open, green space.
F fredo April 13, 2012
Are there any park improvement jobs that the unions won’t allow volunteers to do?