Saturday park cleanup map.

It’s that time of year again when you get to love on your local park a little. Calls for volunteers have gone out for the “Love Your Park Fall Service Day” on Saturday, Nov. 15, when neighbors get together in their favorite green space and help each other spruce it up. Tools are usually provided, but it wouldn’t hurt to bring a rake and some gloves if you have them.

At Cedar Park (49th and Cedar) they need help planting trees, bulbs and ground cover. They are also raking leaves and doing general cleanup to get the park ready for winter. Work will go on at the park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and volunteers are asked to email tatemch (at) aol.com to let an organizer know you’re coming.

Lifelong park volunteer Doris Gwaltney, who died in January 2014, will be honored in a celebration at Carroll Park (58th St. and Girard Ave). Doris started the Carroll Park Neighbors Advisory Council, one of the first groups to partner with nonprofit organizations and city government to build community through revitalization of urban parks. Several speakers will get start at noon and the cleanup efforts at Carroll Park start at 11 a.m. 

For more information and to register for park cleanups go to the City’s “Love Your Park” page here or click on the map image.

Other parks in the area that are looking for volunteers include:

• Barkan Park (50th and Spruce, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.) – Leaf raking, bulb planting and general cleanup.
• Clark Park (4300 Baltimore, 9 a.m. to noon) – Leaf raking
• Malcolm X. Park  (5200 Pine St. 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.) – Leaf raking and general cleanup
• Saunders Park/Willow Triangle (9 a.m. to noon, 39th and Powelton) – Leaf Raking, general cleanup, bulb planting and tree planting.