West Austin Park - Planting, Mulching and Composting

Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 from 9:00am to 1:00pm (CT)
Dick Ryan

Lots of good work accomplished!
1) Spread out 60 cy of mulch in the Dog Park both to feed the trees and help stop erosion.
2) Dug out a new flower garden to utilize water runoff from the water fountain area.
3) Continued root collar cleaning around trees in the Park that had been mulched on IMPD in November
4) Planted the Community Garden

Gave 4.00 hours on 03/03/2018 with Austin Parks Foundation, Friends of West Austin Park, It's My Park Day - Fall
Amy Bodle
George Warmingham

Great work by volunteers who worked hard to improve park. Nice to see Austin Parks staff stop by.

Gave 5.00 hours on 03/03/2018 with Austin Parks Foundation, It's My Park Day - Fall
Ryan Kyles
Janet Sullivan
Jane Baxter Lynn

As always it was a special community outing, with everyone contributing to enhancing the neighborhood. There are two projects working adjacently and there were some minor issues related to that in terms of not realizing that there were two projects so not necessarily signing up for the one on which I wanted to work and a couple of 'territorial' attitudes, which were a shame. One suggestion for next year is to have one registration for the two projects with the option to choose one or the other. We would like to also suggest that more promotion of the day by OWANA and the Dog Park folks prior to the Day would be great e.g. signs at the Park inviting people to sign up.

Gave 3.00 hours on 03/03/2018 with Austin Parks Foundation
Borge Endresen
Clayton Harvey

It was amazing. A lot of work, but very satisfying to help a group of people who creatively solved a problem of a leaky fountain with a flowerbed.

Gave 4.00 hours on 03/03/2018 with Austin Parks Foundation
Dick Ryan

Lots of volunteers materialized so we were able to complete our tasks.
Everyone seemed to have a good time and worked safe.
Excellent weather.
PARD stopped by to clear off all our trash and were genuinely interested in our project.

Gave 6.00 hours on 03/03/2018 with Austin Parks Foundation, Friends of West Austin Park, It's My Park Day - Fall