He is excited to put his communication skills, passion for the environment and community organizing experience to good use at Friends of Philadelphia Parks. As this newsletter goes to press, Friends of Philadelphia Parks is aggressively addressing the issue of the proposed Philadelphia City Council Fiscal Year 2002 Operating and Capital Budgets for the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation. Our goal is to continue to communicate to City Council the need to safeguard and increase the Council's investment in our parks. Spring For Your Park' on May 12 Philadelphia Green and the Philadelphia Department of Recreation invite you to Spring For Your Park. Join hundreds of Philadelphians who care about their parks as they paint, rake, sweep, plant, sing, dance, and picnic in their favorite neighborhood park.
Neighborhood parks are community treasures.
Activities and times will vary from park to park. Free T-shirts will be available for volunteers. Our Schuylkill depends upon human uses of adjacent land for its health and for the volume of water it can contain without disrupting human and wildlife uses of both that land and the river itself. Not all the water that drains into our river adds to its health and beauty. Taking care of our river means being aware of how we are using its adjoining watersheds.