Sentences with phrase «friends of park»

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Hermosa Beach Friends of the Park presents Movies in the Park.

More than 1,400 neighbors and friends of the park have volunteered 40,000 hours toward removing invasive plants, salvaging native ones, collecting seed, installing protective fencing, and supporting trail construction.

Groups eligible for funding include community associations, community gardens, friends of park groups, housing development groups, nonprofits, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, and private businesses.

«We will be looking at grants as well as forming a friends of the park group that would be able to raise funds.

Cary — The Cary Park District Board of Commissioners plans to meet Thursday with the Friends of the Park to help drum up support for the district's proposed $ 8.1 million bond issue.

Friends of the Park's Erma Tranter said she was «baffled» by the decision to award the contract now.

5K and 10K run and wheelchair race, 5K walk and a fun run; benefits Friends of the Park.

«Parkland is not a land bank for other government agencies,» said Erma Tranter of the Friends of the Park organization.

«Park land is not a land bank for other government agencies,» said Erma Tranter, of the Friends of the Park organization.

A private gun club using three acres of lakefront park land near Diversey Harbor pays no rent but is open to the public, according to the Friends of the Park.

A survey by the Friends of the Park, a citizens group dedicated to upgrading the parks, found that under long - term agreements with the park district the eight clubs have the use of a total of more than four acres.

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Park, said her group opposed the request because too much lakefront park land is being used by private clubs.

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Parks civic group, says that among the city «s major regional parks, «Garfield Park is the worst.

And so was Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, one of the park district's toughest critics.

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

Rancor between the Park District and Friends of the Parks has become so bitter that parks officials refused to comment on the record for this article.

They constantly question Friends of the Parks» legitimacy behind Tranter's back, shrugging off her criticisms as evidence that she thinks Kelly still runs the district — or at least that things are still done the same way they were 20 years ago.

«The motive behind the formation of Friends of the Parks was to make the Park District — and it could have been any agency — more accountable,» Weisberg says.

Friends of the Parks encourages you to celebrate Earth Day on Saturday by sprucing up the planet a little.

Based on visits to 30 parks during October by Tribune reporters, and a separate study by Friends of the Parks, a civic watchdog group, Garfield appears typical of city park programs.

Erma Tranter of Friends of the Parks said her group has offered to help the club find another site elsewhere in a Chicago park, but the club has never responded to the offer.

Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, an organization critical of Kelly but friendly to Netsch, says only 12 percent of the people who use the parks take advantage of its organized activities.

Saving the beaches helped protect the shoreline, said Patrick Reardon, a historian of Chicago and former Tribune urban affairs writer who wrote a report for Friends of the Parks in 2009 on the four miles of lakefront that were still privately owned.

Tranter began working at Friends of the Parks in 1980, around the time that the federal government sued the Chicago Park District for spending an unfair amount of tax dollars in powerful, white neighborhoods instead of minority communities, she said.

Friends of the Parks officials said Thursday the USX site, the Navy Pier locations and additions to DuSable Harbor should be looked at first.

Park commissioners will hold an open house from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 13 at Johnston Recreation Center, 172 S. Circle Ave., for people interested in joining Friends of the Parks.

Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, said the fee increase penalizes Chicago residents, who pay taxes to support park - based museums» operating costs.

Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, presented a 14 - point critique of the budget that, among other things, faulted the Park District for not providing clear information on the total funds spent in each park.

«There are the general and perennial objections of Friends of the Parks and other organizations like that who simply object to anyone using guns anywhere for any purpose, «Friedman said.

The increase was opposed by Friends of the Parks and some other groups.

Friends of the Parks President Erma Tranter is stepping down after leading the advocacy group for more than three decades.

Beginning in the 1970s, the advocacy group Friends of the Parks clamored for the city to retake the land.

But during a spirited exchange with Erma Tranter, the director of Friends of the Parks, Madison and board members were stymied.

«This bridge is being put in as part of the new stadium,» said Erma Tranter, president of Friends of the Parks.

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Parks, said New York City «s parks budget is only $ 286 million compared to Chicago «s $ 271 million «while New York has nearly four times the number of park acres and twice the population.

The district also listened to Friends of the Parks» call for the replacement of fallen trees.

«They listened,» said Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks.

«Obviously, time will tell, but we're very optimistic about Forrest Claypool's ability and intent to reform the Park District,» says Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, the civic watchdog agency that awarded Chicago's parks a dismal D - plus grade this year.

The Friends of the Parks argued the district lacked the authority to sell the land, according to the documents.

A plan to sell the piece of land — a sloped area that includes a maintenance shed, some grass and trees — was approved by voters in 2008 and then challenged in a 2009 lawsuit filed by local group La Grange Friends of the Parks, the documents state.

«We're disappointed, but it is the end of the game,» said Tom Beyer, an attorney for La Grange Friends of the Parks.

At the time, Friends of the Parks, which helped form some groups in 1980, made suggestions.

Cindy Mitchell, president of Friends of the Parks, announced the reward offer at a press conference Sunday in front of another sculpture of a woman and a bull in the park that was left unharmed.

«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel of the advocacy group Friends of the Parks, adding that there should be public meetings of neighborhood groups if the new story is built.

Instead, John Buenz, an architect and member of the Friends of the Parks, said an area along the north side of Navy Pier was an alternative where 300 boat slips could be built without obstructing lake views from Grant Park.

«This is a violation of the Open Meetings Act at least in spirit,» said Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Parks.

Cindy Mitchell, president emeritus of the watchdog group Friends of the Parks, credits the Park District with an impressive turnaround.

The possibile environmental violations were brought to the attention of the state EPA last year by the Friends of the Parks group.

Jackie McKay, project director for Friends of the Parks, said the program «could be a turning point» in Park District programming.