PNC-United Way DAY OF CARING 2006 held on Th 5 Oct 06

Agency Project Report

 1.          Nittany Orchard Park - Skills of Central PA. - 11 volunteers.

•           Picked up all debris in park, swept court areas and gazebo, pruned brush along entry road.

•           Follow up work: pick up brush piles.

2.          Fogleman Fields - Skills of Central PA. - 15 volunteers

•           Removed brush and undesirable trees from fencerow.

•           Follow up work: remove brush piles and felled trees. Have backhoe remove stumps, grade and seed area.

3.          Millbrook Marsh Nature Center - PSU Horticulture Classes c/o Larry Kuhns

                          65 volunteers (split between a.m & p.m. classes).

•           Cut invasive species and treated stumps; planted 12 new trees.

•           No follow up work.

4.          Holmes Foster Park - Bahai’s of State College - 6 volunteers.

•           Swept pavilions and court areas, picked litter, checked picnic tables for staples and weeded and mulched flower bed.

•           No follow up work.

5.          Walnut Springs Park -- 7 volunteers from Altrusa Club (Park Partner), 4 Penns Valley H.S. students.

•           Picked up litter, pulled vines from trees and pruned back trails.

•           No follow up work.

6.          Stony Batter Natural Area & Mt. Nittany Conservancy Lands -

             Bellefonte High School English Class - 14 volunteers.

•           Added gravel to parking area and information sign viewing area, cut brush along parking lot and performed drainage work on the mountain trail.

•           Follow up work: remove brush piles.

7.          Haymarket Park - SCAHS Wild Dream Team - 24 volunteers.

•           Mulched street trees and removed brush from fence row.

•           Follow up work: remove brush piles.

-           Orchard Park - No volunteers - Borough employees mulched the old farm lane.

•           No follow up work.

-           Tom Tudek Park - No volunteers (to trim out fence rows)

Note: Most follow up work completed by CRPR staff on Friday, 6 Oct 06.

TOTAL:          146 volunteers at 7 park sites.

                          Site Leaders, project materials & lunches for volunteers were provided by CRPR.

                          12 trees for nature center provided by Kuhn’s Tree Farm

CRPR Parks Supervisor:                          Greg Roth         (project coordinator)

CRPR Recreation Supervisor:                 Beth Lee           (coordinated lunches)