New Fence at Palm Park

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Palm Park, also known as Sir Swante Palm Park, in downtown Austin, is an east side of downtown park that was cut off from its neighborhood when 1-35 was built. We at the Austin Park Foundation, together with our great partners, Texas Gas Service (TGS), have been working to start rehabilitating some portions of the park in the last year. …

It’s My Park Day – Friday photo

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Nearly a week since It’s My Park Day and we’re receiving more photos and reports of projects. We’re posting all of the photos that we receive to our Flickr collection.  Please send us yours at apf@austinparks.org. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] …

Statesman Article On Pease Park

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Today, Pam LeBlanc wrote a follow-up piece on Pease Park, an area where the Austin Parks Foundation as well as our Adopt-a-park group, Trees for Pease, have put in a lot of work in the past few years and especially, the past few months.  Among the new improvements are irrigation, 100 new trees, we also spread dillo dirt and mulch …

Thanks for a Great It’s My Park Day

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The 2009 edition of It’s My Park Day is over, but extending our thanks and our appreciation to all who participated is just beginning. Most of all, we’d like to thank our partners at the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, as well as our title sponsor, Wheatsville Food Co-op, who gave us all of those yummy snacks!  Thanks …

It’s My Park Day – one week to go!

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We’ve  had a host of wonderful volunteers at our office in the past three days folding t-shirts and promotional materials, stuffing project leader bags, packing trail mix and rubber banding packs of gloves. We’re in good shape for our supply distribution day next Thursday at REI Downtown, but we still need more volunteers for the big day next Saturday March …

100 Trees for Pease!

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On Saturday, Feb 21, several hundred volunteers converged on Pease Park to plant the first 100 trees for Pease.  It took a village to get them purchased, placed, planted and irrigated!  We’d like to thank the following for all of their hard work: • Richard Craig, who formed Trees for Pease, raised the bulk of the funds (nearly $20,000 to …