May 23, noon to 1 p.m
UCSF Mission Bay Center, 1675 Owens Street
The Annual Stewardship Award Winners!
Thanks to all the park groups who submitted a nomination for the Neighborhood Parks Council Stewardship Awards. A big thanks to the panel of judges who worked hard to pick the winners for this year’s Awards. NPC would like to honor all the park groups that are out there doing tremendous work, improving and maintaining spaces that everyone enjoys. Thank you for your dedication in greening and cleaning your neighborhood park!
The Stewardship Awards Winners will each receive a prize of $2,500 for park improvement projects.
And the winners are:
Outstanding Park Group
Hayes Valley Neighborhood Park Group
Outstanding Environmental Achievement
Precita Valley Neighbors,
Precita Park Butterfly Habitat
Outstanding Effort for a Capital Project
Pacific Edge Traffic Island Volunteers
“The Stewardship Awards are an opportunity to bring our park groups into the spotlight and pay tribute to their efforts," says Isabel Wade, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Parks Council. “Without the extra help of volunteers, our parks would be in a sorry state.” Each year more than 100 park groups throughout San Francisco work tirelessly to improve their neighborhood parks. Activities range from weed pulling, litter pick-up, and planting to fundraising for park improvements. The 2006 sponsors are McKesson Corporation, Wells Fargo, and the Moore Foundation.
The panel judges were:
1) Betty Traynor, Friends of Boeddeker Park
2) Dee Dee Workman, Executive Director, SF Beautiful
3) Kelly Quirke, Executive Director, Friends of the Urban Forest
4) Peter Vaernet, Friends of Brooks Park
5) Cathy Merrill, President of Merrill Morris Partners, Inc, Landscape Architects and Planners
6) Slobodan Dan Paich, Director, Artship Dance/Theater.
