The CDA is planning a work-party to do a early fall cleanup maintenance on the park – On Saturday, October 5, from 8am till 12pm.
(The work party will happen in any weather less than a downpour.)
Please respond here or contact us via email or on Facebook if you are interested in helping (or just come on down on Saturday, October 5). (This does qualify as volunteer hours for high school students and the requirements for the National Honor Society as well as “Community Service Hours” for other organizations.)
The park will be CLOSED for normal usage during this work-party, but volunteers can bring their dogs to hang out while we humans make the park nice for them (and us). [One human will be asked to keep watch on the dogs while the others work – with trade-offs for breaks.]
Things that needs to get done:
- Install decorative fence at the park entrance and exit driveways (4-5 people) (augur)
- Reset the drainage stones around the all-dog fountain near the exit. (1-2 people) (shovels)
- Horizontal Tire/Platform (2-3 people)
- Transport sand from the pile in the parking lot to fill the layed-down tire on the all dog side. (shovels, cart)
- The tire needs to be completely filled, including inside the “lip”.
- Trash Cleanup (3-4 people)
- clean up trash in the park (poop, plastic, etc) (grabbers, trashbags)
- clean up trash in the lot and around the front of the park (grabbers, trahbags)
- clean up trash behind the park (over fence – long pants) (grabbers, trashbags)
- Mulch-Hillside (** people)
- Remove mulch & dirt behind the landscape timbers so that the washed-down mulch can fill in without overflowing onto the pathway. (cart, shovels, pitchfork)
- Spread the extra mulch pile left over from the last drop – up, down and around the hillside (cart, pitchfork, rakes)
- Pee Circles (2-3 people)
- Turn up existing fill of pee circles (spin-tine tool, pitchfork)
- Dig out/remove some if needed (shovel, cart)
- Add Mulch from hill-pile to pee circles (cart, pitchfork)
- Little Dog & All Dog Sand Strip
- Turn up, loosen sand and remove grass & weeds in sand strip (spin-tine tool, pitchfork)
- rake out and remove stones (rake, bucket)
- add sand (from sand pile in parking lot)
- Grass Care (2-3 people)
- Weed Whack to trim the grass around the the fence-lines and other edges
- Fence-line repair (2-3 people)
- Find gaps along fence bottom around park & mark with clothespins (1 person) (clothespins)
- Add RAP to gaps in fence bottom (2 people) (RAP, shovels, sledgehammer, cart)
- Weed Cleanup (2-3 people)
- Clear “thorn trees” from agility area (1-2 people) (brush cutter or hedge trimmer)
- Clear weed growth from front area (1-2 people) (brush cutter or hedge trimmer)
- Clear/pull weeds from mulched hillside. (4-5 people)
- Clear/pull weeds and grass from the landscape timbers at the base of the hillside (2-3 people)
- Pull weeds from the bricks in the park entrance (2-3 people)
- Clean up Parking Lot (1-2 people)
- Cut up and pick up the brush from the lot & dispose into the dumpster (gloves)
- Fill holes in park (1-2 people) (shovel, cart dirt)
- Cut down trees and weeds on the dirt and sand piles in the lot, near the dumpster. (2-3 people)
- Fill Potholes in lot (2-3 people) (RAP, shovels, sledgehammer, Tamper, cart)
Things we need people to donate, to help do this:
Things we need people to bring, to help do this:
- Dingo or other skid-loader to move large amounts of soil & mulch
- Tamper to pack down pot-hole fill
- shovels, leaf and lawn rakes
- hedge trimmer