What: A Fun Earth Guardian Organized Community Park Weeding Day
So please join us Friday, July 23th at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm to help get the Foothills Park cleaned up, while having some fun, getting to know your community, and making the park a safe place for our children to play in. It is very empowering working by your children’s side in these activities. It helps them connect with the importance of caring for the Earth and shows them that their actions can have a positive impact on creating a safe healthy community to grow up in. Please bring water and a picnic lunch for afterwards.
When: Friday July 23th at 10:30-12:30
Where: Foothills Community Park in North Boulder behind the Waldorf School off of Violet and Broadway
Dear Friends,
We at Earth Guardians are excited to announce that we have officially adopted the Foothills Community Park in North Boulder. What does this mean you are probably wondering? Well, we will be responsible for organizing the community to join us in keeping the park weed free. This community action will prevent pesticides from being sprayed, pesticides that put our health, our children’s health and the health of our wildlife and water systems at risk.
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| Foothills Community Park in North Boulder |
The Earth Guardian youth have had a very positive impact here in the Boulder community after responding to an article in the paper that stated the City was going to add two new harmful chemicals to the list of approved chemicals to be used in the parks and around our City. The Earth Guardian youth helped organized the community to speak out against this action, and through the power of uniting all of our voices we won! We have been watching the City list that is posted every Friday on what and where they will spray that week and for over a month now they have still not scheduled any spraying in our parks. We commend the City for listening and protecting the health of our children and us all. Officials said that they usually hear from the same small group of people on this issue, but that they received emails and phone calls from over 1,000 people, so all of you who responded to this call, commend yourself. The voice of the people united can change the world.
Because the City hasn't been spraying the parks, they are filling with weeds, so we would like to ask anyone who knows other groups to follow our lead and adopt a park or a median here in our City to keep pesticides out of the parks for good. They can contact us and we can help them get started. It is a big job and the City does not have enough manpower to do it alone. By uniting our efforts we can be an example for other cities to do the same thing in their communities.
Thank you for caring, and for uniting on behalf of this issue that affects us all.
Tamara Rose Roske
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