Over 30 people (and some of their kids) came out to the
2nd Annual Spring Clean and Green on Saturday morning at
Winnemac Park...despite
the snow on the ground. Ouch! The event was in concert with the
City-wide Spring Clean and Green Earth Day celebrations supported by the
47th and 40th Wards Aldermen and the Streets and Sanitation Yard.
The area bounded by North Damen to North Western and West Lawrence to West Foster is becoming affectionately known as the "Winnemac Parkneighborhood" for it's huge and versatile green space. It helps identify this distinct geographic area in the greater
Lincoln Square Community Area.
Thanks to neighbors Jeffrey
Newman, Scott Bloom and Karen Kolb for helping with set up, staffing the
registration table and cleaning up!
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| Neighbors register and fill-up on breakfast goodies and coffee...it was cold! | | |
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| Hard work = strawberries and donuts! |
Neighbors also helped identify and mark Ash trees that are in danger of infestation.
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| Winnemac Park on Saturday, April 20th 2013 |
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| We have our bags! |
Thank you to the Winnemac Park Advisory Council
(email park@winnemac.org) for co-sponsoring the event and to all the
neighbors for greening the park! Watch www.winnemac.org for more "meet-up,
clean-up" events coming soon. Even though we have a great and
relatively clean park, we found plenty of glass and trash to clean
up...keep an eye out!
This year's most interesting find in the park... a 6 ft metal pole!
See you next time!
