Games, grass and trees on PARK(ing) Day 2010
By Andy Meeks
Last Friday, Friends of Trees helped celebrate Portland’s PARK(ing) Day by creating a small urban park and game center in front of Stumptown Coffee on SW 3rd Avenue. Complete with a homemade game of bags, a temporary lawn, walls of straw bales, our famous Plant It Portland yard signs, and, of course, trees—scarlet oaks, white alder, and a bald cypress—it was a fun and interactive way to highlight the need to create and protect green spaces in our region.
The day was sponsored by The Intertwine Alliance, a broad coalition of public, private and nonprofit organizations whose goal is to promote, protect and document The Intertwine, “our connected network of parks, trails and natural areas in the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington region.”
You can help create green spaces in our urban areas by purchasing discounted street and yard trees through our Neighborhood Trees program or by volunteering with our Green Space Initiative program from October through April this planting season.
Watch the Portland Tribune video above and check out our slideshow below to see how much fun Friends of Trees had at PARK(ing) Day last Friday.
–Meeks is Volunteer & Outreach Manager for Friends of Trees
No bocce ball? What a great event–and what a terrific video cameo. Well done.
I can’t believe I missed it…
This is Chelsea – We SO almost had a bocce ball game going. Nice to e-meet you Toshio, the staff here rave about you…
chelsea
Toshio – How are you?? We miss you! How’s the TV business? Next time bring a bocce ball and join us.
[...] year Friends of Trees was featured in a Portland Tribune video about PARK(ing) Day 2010 in Portland, which was sponsored by The Intertwine [...]