UPDATE: ‘Old School Game Night’ Postponed to May 22nd!

Posted on May 14, 2012 by ErinEngelstad

OLD SCHOOL GAME NIGHT in CLARK PARK!

POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER 

NEW DATE: Tuesday, May 22nd

Tuesday, May 15th 2012

4 – 7 pm

Remember the days when the only item on your agenda was playing your favorite game in the neighborhood park? Prepare for the games to begin again! Come out to Clark Park after work to show your stuff in a four-square tournament, make your way through a giant hopscotch court, and play in the signature kickball match happening in The Bowl!  This event is open, and encouraged, for ALL ages, just bring a positive attitude and a drive for fun! Evening activities will be accompanied by DJ Patty-Pat’s Back-in-the-Day soundtrack!

4 pm – 5:30 pm: Hot Potato, Double Dutch, 4-square tournament, Relay Races and more!

6 pm – 7 pm: Kickball Match*

*please come between 4 and 5:30 to put your name down for kickball!

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Love Your Park Week Kicks off in Clark Park!

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Kathleen Turner

A handful of earthworms!

After Friends of Clark Park members and other volunteers spent the morning cleaning, weeding and mulching, neighborhood Girl Scout Troop #92373 gave a very special, slimy, crawly gift to the Park’s gardens!

The Girl Scouts released 18,000 ladybugs and 10 pounds of earthworms in the garden bed along the HMS School fence! The scouts had used their cookie-sale money to buy the ladybugs and earthworms, and nurtured them until they were ready to be released.

At the Spring FOCP membership meeting, scouts Zoe Kwasnicki and Margaux Engel told us that the earthworms would help aerate the soil in the garden beds, and the ladybugs would gobble up aphids and other insects that would be harmful to the plants.

Girl Scout leader Amy Kwasnicki and scouts prepare the "critters" for release.

Lots more pictures of the scouts (and all the extra neighborhood kids who joined in) on our Facebook page!

 

 

 

Photographer: Mary Sarbaugh

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Colin Garrity Reports on Clark Park

Posted on May 2, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Check out this wonderful report featuring Friends of Clark Park President Erin Englestad, Tony West, and Clark Park!
http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/murl/2012/04/30/walnut-hill-park-advocates-ask-city-to-show-them-the-money/

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Announcing two spring garden workdays April 28th and May 12th. Come lend a hand!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by ErinEngelstad

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‘Give Back That Park Money!’

Posted on April 20, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Yesterday’s Philadelphia Daily Record gives a good rundown “Where’s The Park Money?” on the popular protest against the park-funding robbery which the City Administration has been engaged in since 2008 — boosting earmarked parks & rec revenue to pay other departments’ bills.

http://philadelphiadailyrecord.com/

This post was submitted by Tony West.

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Need volunteer observers for world’s largest picnic

Posted on April 16, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Hi park-lovers! You recently read about the Nature Conservancy’s attempt to set a Guinness record for “World’s Largest Picnic” in Clark Park that’s this Sunday, from 12:00 to 4:00. Two notes –

First, this picnic won’t be taking place *solely* in Clark Park. It’s a simultaneous event going on in numerous other cities across North America.

Secondly: the Guinness Book of Records is very strict about data collection. So the Nature Conservancy needs *two more observers* to help me log this event. We will be the unbiased witnesses for the record.

Observers will need to join the picnic around 11:00 am and stay until about 2:00. This entails taking some photos and completing required paperwork. Without this help, the Nature Conservancy can’t participate in the nationwide record attempt, so they would love some added support from the West Philly community. Any help is greatly appreciated! If you’d like to help, email Tony West, anthony.abbott.west@gmail.com.

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Spring Membership Meeting, Monday April 16th

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Kathleen Turner

Join Friends of Clark Park for our Spring General Membership Meeting, at 7 pm on Monday, April 16th in Griffith Hall.

ladybugsIn addition to reports on Friends projects and activities, we have a special treat scheduled for this meeting: members of local Brownie Troop 92373 will be there to tell us about a special project they’ve been working on. In cooperation with the Clark Park Garden Committee, they’re raising ladybugs and earthworms to release in the new A Park garden beds.

Griffith Hall is the building on the east side of 43rd Street, just south of the basketball courts.  Not a member? Come join us and find out how you can be involved in one of the busiest parks in the city of Philadelphia!

 

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Support Parks Funding

Posted on April 11, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Please attend the City Council Hearing on Parks funding next Tuesday, April 17, from 10 AM to support the Philadelphia Parks Alliance drive to have $8 million restored to the Parks and Recreation budget. Wear green if you can come–I’ll have my FoCP cap on, for example.
Please drop me an email if you can attend.
Frank L. Chance
chancefl@gmail.com

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Sun April 22 – Picnic for the Planet!

Posted on April 11, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Join The Nature Conservancy to celebrate Earth Day! As part of our 2nd Annual Picnic for the Planet, we will be participating in a global effort to set the world record for largest multi-venue picnic. Be part of this record setting day!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Noon – 4 pm (Record attempt begins at 12:30pm)

Clark Park, 45th & Chester, West Philly

Grab your blanket, bring your favorite picnic food, and enjoy a day in the park with family, friends, and The Nature Conservancy!

Food for the first 100 record attempt participants generously provided by Elevation Burger (www.elevationburger.com).

For more information vist: www.nature.org/earthday

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Sat April 21st: 4th Annual Earth Uprising Earth Day Fest & Flea Market in Clark Park

Posted on April 10, 2012 by tdomf_9f3a2

Fourth Annual Earth Day Festival and Flea Market at Clark Park: “Earth Uprising: Rebirthing the Planet!”

Saturday April 21st, 2012

9am to 5pm

Clark Park, 43rd St and Chester Ave. West Philadelphia

With the theme of “Earth Uprising: Rebirthing the Planet – Oppressed Peoples and the Planet Must Be Free!” — this 4th Annual Earth Day Fest & Flea Market will be an all day free festival in the park with speakers, music, food, vendors and information booths. Free workshops will be held on such topics as social and environmental justice, community gardening and many aspects of building a sustainable community. The Food Trust weekly farmers market will be open and there will be activities for children. The flea market offers crafts, clothing, records, jewelry, ethnic arts and crafts, collectibles, great food from West Philly’s popular food trucks and carts including the brand new vegetarian Kung Fu Hoagies, and recycled goods of all kinds.

Speakers include Nurse-Midwife Mary Koroma of the All-African People’s Development & Empowerment Project in Sierra Leone – a pioneering nurse-midwife who has established a birthing clinic and Infant and Maternal Health center in the West African country with the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the world; representatives from the Green Party of Philadelphia, Occupy Philly and Protecting Our Waters; Pam Africa, the leader of the Free Mumia Coalition; the African People’s Solidarity Committee, and more. Featuring live music, dance and performances from the Gold Coast Buccaneers Drill Team of West Philly, Plum Dragoness & the Elements, African drumming and dance, soulful singing from Tina, bluesy folk from Yoni Gordon (from NYC), and Revolutionary Poetry by Rasheed Bey. Also featuring workshops on organic gardening, urban farming & community agriculture and sustainability with The Food Trust, University City High School student gardeners, and other local experts.

A benefit for the Uhuru Movement’s black-community led programs for sustainable economic self-reliance and development throughout the U.S. and the world.

To volunteer, vend or participate call 215-387-0919 • philly_flea@yahoo.com • uhurufleamarket.blogspot.com
Sponsored by Uhuru Solidarity Movement, Green Party of Philadelphia, Black Star Industries, the African People’s Education & Defense Fund, and Uhuru Furniture

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Thanks! If you need photos, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Harris O. Daniels
(267) 571-9762
philly@uhurusolidarity.org

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