Auction Oaks @ Republic Square Project in Statesman

In the Saturday, November 24th edition of the Austin American-Statesman, Sarah Coppola writes about our upcoming project to restore the Auction Oaks area of Republic Square. Read the story here. Not mentioned directly in the story but I do want to point out is the great work of TBG Partners, especially TBG Partners principal Daniel Woodroofe and great help from TBG Partners President Earl Broussard.

Thanks also go to the Republic Square Partners, a collection of business, property owners and local and national governmental agencies who have been working hand in hand with us. There’s still a lot of work to do to get the project fully approved and under construction, but we’re excited to announce our efforts.

275 volunteers at Country Club Creek Trail on Sat, Nov 17th!

The sixth annual Project Build A Park, presented by Austin Community College Office of Student Life together with the Austin Parks Foundation was a tremendous success!

We had the help of over 275 volunteers on Sat, Nov 17! Amazing!

We could not have done this without the incredible help and support from the following:

-from SEATAG (Southeast Austin Trails & Greenways) volunteers, especially Malcolm, Jim, Gale and Judy

- The Austin Community College Student Life Team led by Stacy.

- The Central Texas Trail Tamers team leaders: Derly, Patrick, Charles, Kevin, Jerry and Richard, who partnered with us to lead teams of volunteers to perform all of the tasks.

- lots of tools from the Austin Parks Foundation.

We worked from from 9 am to 12 noon to spread over 28 truckloads of road base on nearly 1/2 mile of trail, tremendous amount of trash and construction debris collected and tossed and a huge mountain of Bamboo cut back, piled and an amazing collection of cans and bottles gathered.

Photos from the top to bottom show road base being spread, bamboo being stacked high and part of our can collection.

Thanks so much to ACC for providing a band and lunch for volunteers for this sixth annual Project Build A Park – it went great!

Oct 28 – Austin Oyster Adventure Race

On Sunday, October 28th, 38 teams of 3 people competed in the first Austin Oyster Adventure Race. Developed and produced by Team Sage Productions of Denver, Colorado; Austin is the fourth city to host the race (Denver, San Francisco and Seattle being the others.)

Austin Parks Foundation is the non-profit beneficiary (yeah!) and we helped with over 30 volunteers at REI downtown and various checkpoints. On the left are some photos of teams from two checkpoints – Mt. Bonnell and Shoal Creek Trail between 9th and 6th Streets. A lot of fun! Teams ran, biked, rolled, walked to seven different checkpoints, taking photos, finding clues, buying produce and many other tasks. More info at www.austinoyster.com