Webster Park - Fall Clean Up

Announcing: Fall Clean Up at Webster Park (Sat., 16 October 2010)

Please join us to kick off the first Friends of Webster Park community event!

Where: Webster Park, 3025 NW 68th ST
When: Sat., 16 October 2010
Time: 9:00AM - 2:00PM (drop-in any time!)
note: the mulching part will being about 12:30

What we'll be doing: final weeding for fall (beds, planters, walkways), cutting back foliage, raking leaves, spreading mulch, sweeping up the play area. We'd also like to hear from you about what you'd like to see happen at the park!

Tools will be provided - but feel free to bring your favorite weeding tool or broom!

We hope you can make it to this event or a future event. If you cannot make it, but would like to contribute a snack for volunteers -- please let me know! Email: webster.park.ballard@gmail.com

How Webster Park Came to Be

Webster Park, a .8-acre park which came into existence at the instigation of the Ballard community, was built on the site of the former Webster Elementary School. The park was built in 1997 after community members and a grassroots organization took up the cause of promoting increased open space in the Ballard area. Parks leased the site from the Seattle School District.

Seattle Parks purchased the land on March 18, 2009 for $1.6 million.
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(Source: www.seattle.gov)