Re-roofing a great old building

There’s an old brick tudor style building at Pease Park that used to house the restrooms.  Since a new restroom building was built a few years back, the old building has fallen into disrepair. Thanks to Richard from Trees for Pease, the fine folks at the Old Enfield Neighborhood Association, and approval from the Parks Dept, the building is getting a make-over with a new wood shingle roof being installed now and on It’s My Park, scraping and priming the wood on the sides in preparation for a new coat of paint.

Recycling Stone Bollards At Pease Park

With the completion of Phase 1b of the Auction Oaks Project @ Republic Square, we have a number of surplus stone bollards that used to ring the Auction Oaks area.  Thanks to help from the Parks Dept, specifically the folks in forestry, we removed a portion of a parking lot immediately around a big old oak tree, put down mulch, set out the bollards and presto – another tree breathing a little easier.

Thanks to Walter with Parks Forestry, Danny from the Parks Northwest District, and Richard from Trees for Pease.

This year’s It’s My Park Day T-Shirt!

3,200 t-shirts have arrived and 3 days of t-shirt folding and packing begin tomorrow (still need help from volunteers – sign up here.)  We think it looks great – our tremendous thanks to Enviromedia Social Marketing for their great design.

Republic Square Winter Wonderland

We wandered over to Republic Square at lunch time and snapped a few photos of the snow coming down. We’ve posted a selection on our flickr page, but included a few here too.  Enjoy!

3,200 T-Shirts to Fold & 3,000 Calendars to Roll

We’re less than two weeks away from our annual It’s My Park Day and we’re looking for volunteers to help us fold 3,200 volunteer t-shirts and roll 3,000 calendars Wed through Friday in three hour shifts at our offices.  We also have trash bags, work gloves, clif bars and other items to process and package up.    We’ll reimburse you for parking and you’ll get a cool t-shirt as well. Register here and thanks!

Here’s a sneak peek of boxes of clifbars and work gloves waiting for our volunteers!

Banff Mountain Film Festival Returns 4/10 and 4/11

Whole Earth Provision Company is bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival back to Austin Sat, Apr 10 and Sun Apr 11 at the Paramount Theatre.  Apr 10 @ 8 pm will feature the Radical Reels Tour and Apr 11 @ 6 pm will feature the Banff Mountain Film World Tour.  And, even more exciting – Whole Earth has designated the Austin Parks Foundation as the beneficiary of ticket proceeds.  We’re so excited – we served as the beneficiary in the first year – 2006 and as a co-beneficiary with TreeFolks in 2008. It means a lot to us and we really appreciate the support from Whole Earth.

Tickets go on sale March 1st at ProTix and are $20 for one night and $35 for both nights.  It’s always an amazing collection of movies and you should not miss it.

To get you excited, check out the opening trailer:

It’s My Park Day Video Spot

Thanks to Victor Ovalle at the Austin Parks and Recreation Dept, we have a great promotional video to promote It’s My Park Day on March 6th – check out the 59 park improvement projects that you can sign up to volunteer for at www.austinparks.org

Tree Grate Installed at Republic

Our Tree grate around the Auction Oak on our new deck/stage at Republic Square is installed.  Here are a few photos….

Tools Organized thanks to George and friends

Thanks to George Mading, with help from Kevin Deiters and others from the Central Texas Trail Tamers, we have a great new tool rack for our hundreds of shovels, rakes, pitchforks, weedwrenches, mcleods and other tools.   Here’s a quick shot, these tools are use by many of our 60 volunteer groups for weekend workdays – we have volunteer workdays this Saturday at West Bouldin Creek, Zilker Preserve, Barton Creek Greenbelt – Hill of Life – see our Volunteer page for more info.

Thanks so much George!

Republic Square Tree Grate coming soon

Ironsmith has completed fabrication of our nine foot wide three piece tree grate, one of the last remaining pieces of our Auction Oaks @ Republic Square Phase 1 project.  This will replace the temporary plywood plug that is in the middle of the deck now.  It will be shipped soon from the fabricator in Southern California and should be installed within a few weeks.