May 13th, 2020

Community Day: Love Your Park at Home May 13th Schedule

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Wednesday, May 13th is Community Day during Love Your Park @ Home! Here are all the things you can learn, share, and do in celebration of community in Philly parks.

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LEARN: All the reasons to love FDR Park

Now is the perfect time to fall in love (or fall in love again!) with FDR Park, South Philadelphia’s largest and most dynamic public space. FDR Park - also known as The Lakes - offers over 350 acres of lakes, fields, meadows, bridges, marshes, mystery, and magic. A unique recreational and natural landscape activated by the incredible cultural diversity of South Philadelphia, FDR Park is truly a gem of Philadelphia’s public park system.

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SHARE: Why you #loveyourpark!

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Shout out your Philly park! How is your park unique and/or how does it represent your neighborhood and community? Use our fun template to tell the world why you #loveyourpark!

Take a screenshot of the image above, fill in the blanks, and tag us on social media! 

DO: Join the Philadelphia Parks Alliance Day of Action

Our friends at the Philadelphia Parks Alliance are celebrating today with the Love Your Park & Rec Center Day of Action! It's an entire day of activities you can take part in to support our civic spaces.

Please join Philadelphia Parks Alliance on Wednesday, May 13 at noon, for a live question and answer session about the essential services that Parks and Rec provides with Philadelphia City Council members Cindy Bass, Isaiah Thomas, and Jamie Gauthier. They're also hosting a live Q&A with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell at 2:00pm. Visit the Facebook live link for both events here.

You can submit your questions using the hashtag #ParksAndRecQandA or in the comments to this post before and during the live broadcast.

Visit the link below to see the full schedule.

Upcoming Love Your Park @ Home Events

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Rail Park October Volunteer Green-Up

October 21st at 5:30pm
1300 Noble Street Philadelphia, PA 19123

Join Friends of the Rail Park for a Volunteer Green-Up! Over the years, our volunteers have played an integral role in keeping the park a clean, inviting space for our larger community. New this year and in response to volunteer interest, we're introducing a monthly green-up. This is a great way to exercise your green thumb in community and leave your imprint on the park! Volunteers will assist with weeding, planting, pruning, and more! All supplies will be provided, plus light refreshments!

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FDR Park Garden Workdays

October 22nd at 9:30am
1600 Pattison Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19145

Help our park bloom! Volunteers will be an essential part of weeding and maintaining FDR Park's gardens, including our Pollinator and Learning Gardens.

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Free a Tree & Community Walk on Boxer's Trail

October 23rd at 10:00am
Mount Pleasant Mansion

Join Philadelphia Parks and Recreation's Stewardship Team for a volunteer workday on the Boxer's Trail in East Fairmount Park. We will spend the morning clearing vines and invasive species off of trees along the trail. Then, we will go on a short community walk led by a member of our Philadelphia Forest Stewards volunteer group, in which you will learn to identify the native and invasive plants that you walk by every time you are on this trail! In preparation for the event, you are invited to download the iNaturalist app on your phone and create an account. This wildlife identification tool has applications in citizens science that we will discuss during our walk.

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