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The Philadelphia Chapter will be at the Fairmount Water Works for the LOVE YOUR PARK WEEK May 12 Service Day! The workday begins at 10 am and will be filled with much needed cleaning, tree care and gardening. Please bring your own work gloves if you have them (if not, no worries), a bottle of water to stay hydrated, and be dressed for work.
***Volunteers Must RSVP though our Facebook event or at service@psuphila.org AND visit the website www.loveyourpark.org and register to volunteer under the Group Name "Penn State Alumni". Due to liability issues, we need every volunteer to register and agree to the liability waiver.***
"LOVE Your Park is the biannual volunteer park clean-up day in Philadelphia with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and PHS. This spring it will be held on Saturday, May 12th. Last spring 94 neighborhood parks participated, 2,350 volunteers came out to clean and green, totalling 7,050 hours of volunteer work. Approximately 2,433 bags of trash and 301 bags of recycling were collected, 31 tons of trash and debris removed, 29 trees planted, 8,634 flowers planted, and 173 graffiti sites abated. Help us make this year's LOVE Your Park Day an even bigger success!"
“Keeping our parks clean and green is another way of showing pride in our communities and loving the city we live and work in,” ~ Mayor Nutter. |