Painted Blue

Photos show Randy Nissen's crew of Global Youth Service Day volunteers from The Early College High School. They joined adults from HHNA and Burroughs Neighbohood Organization to pick up litter and spruce up the footbridge over Swan Creek in Highland Park. Follow this link for Randy's video. ehttp://www.randynissen.net/20112012.html

Special thanks to Eric Zern from BNO for his aid in painting and to Howard Abts for leading a walk to the zoo after helping with the litter pick up.

All Spruced Up

April 23, 2012 Over 50 students from Early College High School worked on painting the footbridge across Swan Creek and picking up litter from the park. You can tell by the paint on the footbridge that the event was light-hearted. Pictures will follow- some may show a little blue paint on faces! Thank you to all the students and to the city workers in the park that day planting trees to replace the young trees that died. Thanks to Don Mullen for organizing the painting, to Randy Nissen for volunteering his students, to Linda Pomeroy for sweeping litter from the South Ave. bridge, and to Howard Abts for leading litter scavengers bravely into the ditch by Champion.

Spring Clean Up

April 21, 2012 Come join the fun from 9-11:30 a.m. at Highland Park as we clean up trash and paint the bridge. If our crowd of volunteers exceeds the work, we'll tackle the trash along Fearing viaduct, too. Bring gloves, wear old clothes, and we'll try to spruce things up.

Garden volunteers- thank you! Someone pulled last year's plants from the ground and put in spring bulbs. What a lovely surprise!

Update on the pool- Deputy Mayor Steve Herwat and Forestry and Recreation Commissioner Dennis Garvin toured some city pools last week and agreed that they all, and definitely Highland Park's pool, needed to be demolished soon. We'll keep you posted if we hear when this may get done.