It’s My Park Day – March 7 2009 – over 1,500 volunteers needed

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Join the Austin Parks Foundation for the 7th annual It’s My Park Day, presented by Wheatsville Food Co-op This is the annual Austin area volunteer park improvement day on Saturday March 7 and we have over 40 park improvement projects that needed volunteers – planting trees and plants, clean-ups, non native tree and plant removal and many other projects are …

It’s My Park! Day – Call for Project Leaders!

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It’s My Park! Day is the Austin Parks Foundation’s biggest annual one-day event!  And we need your help! The next It’s My Park! Day will be March 7, 2009. Project leader registration is now open via www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html. This earlier date will allow for tree planting and avoid major conflicts such as Clean Sweep, SXSW, Earth Day, and Spring Break. This year we …

Thanks to our Volunteers for It’s My Park Day 2008

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The sixth annual It’s My Park! Day was Saturday, April 12 and we had a record 51 park improvement projects with 1,400 volunteers signed up.  We’re getting back reports of actual numbers, but in the meantime, we wanted to begin sharing the many pictures that we are receiving – check them out on our Flickr Page

It’s My Tee Shirt!

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We are still getting compliments on our 2006 It’s My Park! Day tee shirt, designed by Enviromedia. Today I even received this picture in my email – of Jessica from Keep Austin Beautiful wearing the shirt on her vacation to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. It’s a good reminder-Austin Parks Foundation is just a small piece of the …