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Green Greetings
For more than 25 years, Parkway Partners, the
City of
New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways and
citizens from neighborhoods throughout the metro
area have worked together to improve the
quality of life
through our green spaces.
| Tree Troopers Training |
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An educational program for neighborhood
volunteers
to properly care for mature and newly planted
trees
throughout the metro New Orleans area.
More than 50 concerned citizens have already
completed this training and have successfully
led
volunteer projects to help restore the lost
canopy and
revitalize devastated neighborhoods.
The workshop is FREE and open to the public.
Register now to participate in the Tree Troopers
training taking place July 15, 17, 22 & 24,
2008.
Sessions are from 4 pm -7 pm at the Lake Vista
Community Center, 6500 Spanish Fort Rd, New
Orleans, LA .
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| Honored at Council Chambers |
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Councilmember Stacy Head and Keith Bleichner,
Chief Landscape Architect of the City of New
Orleans
Department of Parks and Parkways, received
awards
from state Urban Forester Tom Campbell in the
New
Orleans City Council Chambers. The Lousiana
Urban Forestry Council Award was the first
award ever
received by Head in the Council Chambers. Head
was cited as a tireless advocate for trees in
her
capacity as a public official while Bleichner
received a
management award for his the design and approval
of many reforestation projects. Campbell also
acknowledged Parkway Partners' ReLeaf New
Orleans initiative as an outstanding forestry
program
that has made a big difference in New
Orleans' green
infrastructure.
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| Saturday, May 10 - Mother's Day Gifts |
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Stop by Parkway Partners on Saturday from 9
a.m. to
12 noon to shop for a "special" Mother's Day
gift.
Choose from Daylilies, Hibiscus and
Hydrangea. For the first time we will have a
local urban
farmer on hand with home grown vegetables for
sale.
Our 11:00 a.m. speaker will be announced in
the
upcoming Second Saturday Program reminder.
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| National Cancer Survivor's Day |
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Pictured here is the Cancer Survivor's Plaza located
on Loyola Ave near Poydras St. It was given
to the
City of New Orleans in 1995 by the Bloch
Foundation.
through a Parkway Partners project.
National Cancer Survivor's Day is observed each
year on the first Sunday of June. The 21st
annual
National Cancer Survivors Day is Sunday, June 1,
2008.
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| Latino Farmers at Kid's Cafe |
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Latino Farmers are giving a tasteful addition
to the
community garden on Oretha Castle Haley in
Central
City. The garden will support Central American
vegetables.
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| New Orleans Garden Society Honors Parkway |
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Parkway Partners' ReLeaf New Orleans
initiative was
commended at the April New Orleans Garden
Society
meeting at Longue Vue Gardens. ReLeaf New
Orleans was recognized for making an important
impact in neighborhoods throughout the city.
More
than 4,500 trees have been re-introduced to
the New
Orleans landscape on neutral grounds and in
flood-
impacted areas since ReLeaf New Orleans began in
early 2006.
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| Times-Picayune Lauds Parkway Partners Planting |
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In a lead story of the Orleans Picayune, Parkway
Partners' 25 year effort to mobilize the
community
around green space was recognized. The
effort to
create and maintain public green space became a
model for the nation under the leadership of
founder
Flo Schornstein.
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Parkway Partners Volunteer Named Louisiana Heroine |
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Parkway Partners' Amelie Oriole will be
recognized
as a 2008 "Louisiana Heroine" by the Louisiana
Association of Nonprofit Organizations (LANO)
at a
luncheon to be held in Baton Rouge on May 15th.
Oriole was in the first class of Parkway
Partners' Tree
Troopers in 2006 and has been planting and
saving
trees ever since.
Oriole will be one of only ten Louisiana women
honored this year for her "philanthropic spirit"
and "outstanding contribution of time, talent
and
treasure" to improve Louisiana.
Although she returned to a ruined home after
Katrina,
one of Oriole's first calls was to Parkway
Partners.
She wanted to know how she could make a
difference
to what she loved most -- the city's
tree canopy.
She helped to create the ReLeaf New Orleans
campaign, participating in the first
formative meeting.
Oriole met with Parkway Partners and city
officials to
determine appropriate tree species for specific
neutral grounds and mobilized volunteers to
accomplish Parkway Partners' first major
ReLeaf New
Orleans project, the planting of trees along
the entire
length of Elysian Fields Avenue-from the
Mississippi
River to Lake Pontchartrain.
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