Emergency
Response Text Exercise
Mission Dolores
Park
April 22
Come to Mission Dolores Park
to learn how to use your cell phone to send a text message to NPC's
Emergency Response Site!
In cooperation with the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, NPC's ParkScan program is helping with a practical application of its technology in linking the public to the City's emergency response agencies. Using text messaging, we want to demonstrate the value of our network in reporting emergency conditions.
Look for the white tent on Saturday, April 22 between 10 and 12 noon at Mission Dolores Park, Liberty Bell at 19th Street. Learn how to text, have coffee and bagels and collect emergency planning information.
For more information on how to enable your cell phone for this event go to www.parkscan.org
NPC Stewardship
Award Winners
Thanks to all the park groups who submitted
nominations for the Neighborhood Parks Council Stewardship Awards. A big
thank you to the panel of judges who worked hard to pick the winners for
this year's Stewardship Awards.
The Judges this year were:
Betty Traynor: Friends of Boedekker Park
Dee Dee Workman: Executive Director, SF Beautiful
Kelly Quirke: Executive Director, Friends of the
Urban Forest
Peter Vaernet: Friends of Brooks
Park
Cathy Merrill: President of Merrill Morris
Partners, Inc, Landscape Architects and Planners
Slobodan Dan
Paich: Director, Artship Dance/Theater
The Stewardship Award Winners will
each receive $2,500
for park enhancement projects.
This
year's winners are:
Outstanding Environmental
Achievement:
Precita Valley Neighbors. Precita Park Butterfly
Habitat Outstanding
Park Group
Award:
Hayes Valley Neighborhood Park Group
Outstanding Effort for a
Capital Project:
Pacific Edge Traffic Island Volunteers
NPC would like to congratulate these 3 groups and honor all the park groups that are out there doing tremendous work, improving and maintaining spaces that everyone enjoys. Thank you for your dedication in greening and cleaning your neighborhood park! The energy, strength and determination of our City's residents to help care for our beloved parks make volunteers one of San Francisco's greatest civic assets.
Come and celebrate with our award
winners at the NPC Annual Stewardship Awards Luncheon and Friendraiser on
Tuesday, May 23rd from 12 noon @ the UCSF Mission
Bay Center located at 1675 Owens Street near the SBC Ball Park.
Bring a friend!
Contact Colleen Flynn, cflynn@sfneighborhoodparks.org
or
(415)621-3260.
NPC's very own: Jeff
Condit presents at the SPUR Forum
Wednesday, April 19th
12:30pm
to 1:30 pm
Jeff Condit, Program Manager for NPC's Blue
Greenway Initiative, will be participating in a San Francisco Planning and
Urban Research Association (SPUR) Forum at SPUR, 312 Sutter St. (at
Grant), Fifth Floor. Please stop by to hear Jeff,
Marshall Foster, Director of City Greening, and
David Beaupre, Senior Planner for the Port of San
Francisco, discuss a unifying vision for a 13-mile green and healthy
corridor along San Francisco's southern waterfront currently taking shape
through Mayor Newsom's Blue Greenway Task Force. Feel free to bring a
lunch. SPUR Forums are open to the public, free for members and $5 for
non-members.
Top
Playgrounds
The San Francisco Chronicle Highlighted some the
city's newest
and nicest playgrounds.
1) Walter Haas Playground (Diamond Heights Boulevard at Digby Street)
2) Kidpower Park (Hoff Street b/w 16th and 17th Street)
3) Julius Kahn Playground (West Pacific Ave. near Arguello, in the Presidio)
4) Parksice Square (Vicente St. and 26th Ave.)
5) Holly Park (Highland Ave. at Bocana Street
6) Mckinely Square (20th and Vermont Streets)
7) West Portal Playground (Lenox Way b/w Taraval and Ulloa)
To review the San Francisco Playground Report Card visit our website at www.sfnpc.org
