Day of Service 2010

Stake: Pensacola

Community Partners:
City of Pensacola, Clean & Green, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, and Community Neighbors
Organization Served: City of Pensacola Parks & Recreation and the East Hill Community
Influencers: Mike Wiggins, Mayor of Pensacola Dave Flaherty, Director, Pensacola Parks & Recreation Brian McCreary, Pensacola Parks & Recreation Gwinn Corley, Director, Clean & Green, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful
Total people involved: 224
Total volunteer hours: 784

On April 22, 2010, at the regular meeting of the City Council, Mike Wiggins, Mayor, proclaimed Saturday, April 24, 2010, as Linking Arms-Helping Hands 2010 Day of Service in the City of Pensacola, and urged all citizens to join in this community Day of Service to landscape and beautify an area of the community.


Working side by side with employees of the City’s Parks & Recreation Department and volunteers for Clean & Green, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, 194 members of all ages from the Pensacola Florida Stake planted azaleas and crepe myrtles in Estramadura Square and cleaned, replanted, and mulched the medians of 10 city blocks of Lakeview Avenue bordering the Square.  The Pensacola Florida Stake has 10 units with each unit being assigned a block-long median to beautify .  City of Pensacola employees cut the edging for the planted areas in the medians, prepared the holes for the trees in Estramdura Square, provided the azalea plants, and provided the pine-straw mulch.  With rakes, shovels, and pruning tools, Church members, Clean & Green volunteers from the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center (NATTC-Pensacola), and local residents provided the labor to clean up the medians, bag the debris, plant the shrubs, and spread the mulch.  Two members documented the activity with pictures and video.  All totaled, 224 individuals participated in the Day of Service project—194 members and 30 non-members.


Despite heavy rain the night before and the threat of rain on Saturday, members and other volunteers showed up at the scheduled time of 9:00 am for the kick-off and ceremonial planting of the first crepe myrtle tree in the Square.  Under overcast skies, all that was to be accomplished was completed by 12:00 noon as planned.  While the youth and adults worked, the younger children kept busy in the playground in the Square.  After the work was done, the members and other volunteers enjoyed a picnic of hot dogs and hamburgers grilled by priesthood members at the Square and desserts prepared by the Relief Societies.  Just as the picnic was concluding, a few sprinkles of rain were felt and shortly after the clean-up, the rain fell to water in the newly planted shrubs and trees and to settle the freshly strewn mulch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xErWVtwf3g

Contact Person: Waikano

Name of Organization:

Serving the City of Pensacola Parks & Recreation in a Landscaping Project for the Lakeview Ave Medians in Pensacola, Florida

Location and Time:

We will beautify the Lakeview Ave medians from 11th to 20th Avenues in the East Hill Community, City of Pensacola, Saturday, April 24, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.  We will gather at Estramadura Park at 9:00 am, then disburse to the medians.  Afterwards, we will hold a cookout for all volunteers in Estramadura Park.

Activity/responsibility:

We will undertake a landscaping and clean-up project on the Lakeview Ave medians and plant some bushes and trees in nearby Estramadura Park.  The project will entail:

• Define beds
• Trim wild shoots from the Live Oaks
• Prune and replant azaleas
• Mulch
• Put debris in garbage bags and pile limbs for pick-up by the city
• Plant trees and bushes in Estramadura park

Tools or skills required:

Items to Bring:
• Rakes
• Shovels
• Pruners
• Weedeaters/edgers
• Blowers
• Wheelbarrows
• Post hole diggers
• Safety Goggles
• Gloves

City will provide:
• Supervisors
• Sod-cutter operator
• Trees and bushes
• Garbage bags
• Debris pick-up

Ages:

A project for adults and youth 12+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.cleanandgreen.org
http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/live/service.asp?stype=parks

Contact Person: Neil Hoyt

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