The Sites List - March 2008
| BP MONTH 2008 PROJECT LIST | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| March 1 - Urban Renovation | |||
| Project Name | Project Description | ||
| Berkeley Marina | One of the city's most famous landmarks, the Berkeley Marina is a beautiful setting for visitors to enjoy some of the most scenic sites that California has to offer. Work at this site will include landscaping projects to help preserve the aesthetic qualities of the Marina. | ||
| Berkeley Youth Alternative | Berkeley Youth Alternatives offers a safe and bias-free haven for the children of Berkeley, ranging from 1st grade to pre-college. BYA assists the youth in developing into responsible and contributing adults. Work at this site will include gardening and beautification activities. | ||
| Grove Park | With a community center built upon it, Grove Park offers a safe, friendly environment for families and youth to have access to. The recreation center is more than 50 years old and can use some renovation. Work at this site will include clean-up and gardening work. | ||
| Post Office Boxes | The city's post office boxes are desperately in need of preservation and maintenance. Work at this site will include restructuring and painting of mail boxes. | ||
| March 8 - Community Enrichment | |||
| Project Name | Project Description | ||
| Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) | BOSS is dedicated to assisting the homeless all around Alameda County by providing them with housing, employment, and, most importantly, human rights. Work will include edifice cleansing, gardening, and the construction of a fence. | ||
| Chaparral House | Chaparral House seeks to provide not just housing, but a community, for the elderly. What started out as a shelter for the elderly who needed immediate care has turned into a nursing community for seniors in need of care. Work at this site will include weeding and gardening work, including ivy removal. | ||
| G.O.A.L.S. for Women | GOALS assists women in building self-esteem, by providing mental health counseling and mentoring services, while encouraging enhancement for women in their vocational, family, and community spheres. Work includes setting up a library for clients as well as a storage space for arts and crafts supplies. | ||
| Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel (YEAH) | Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel believes that in order to remedy the problem of adult homelessness, the issue of youth homelessness must first be addressed. Consequently, YEAH provides warm housing in a safe environment for the homeless youth of Berkeley for 20 weeks in the winter. Work at this site will include organization of hostel supplies. | ||
| March 15 - Greener Berkeley | |||
| Project Name | Project Description | ||
| Aquatic Park EGRET | Aquatic Park EGRET is the stewardship group for the tidal wetlands of Berkeley's largest city park. Volunteers from the community help us tend native coastal plantings to improve the shoreline of San Francisco Bay for wildlife habitat. | ||
| Berkeley Parks and Recreation | Berkeley Parks and Recreation works with rock parks to restore and beautify these city landmarks. Working specifically at Mortar Rock, work will include ivy removal and planting. | ||
| Berkeley Path Wanderers | Berkeley Path Wanderers is dedicated to the maintenance and renovation of the picturesque public paths around the city of Berkeley. Work at this site will include restoration and gardening of these city landmarks. | ||
| Halcyon Commons | Located at the center of Halcyon Court, Halcyon Commons is a mini-park that is home to a variety of trees and shrubs. Created by a local Berkeley community, the site is in need of gardening, graffiti clean-up, and repainting sidewalk numbers. | ||
| Friends of Five Creeks | Friends of Five Creeks is a group of volunteers who seek to protect and restore the watersheds and aquatic and riparian habitat of the creeks of North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and southern El Cerrito and Richmond. We are a grassroots, all-volunteer organization affiliated with the non-profit Urban Creeks Council of California. At the site work will include planting, removing invasive non-native species, controlling erosion, installing amenities such as signs and litter cans, removing litter. | ||
| Friends of the Fountain & Walk | This site, located near Solano Avenue in North Berkeley, is an amazing place to take a walk and enjoy the Berkeley atmosphere. Unfortunately parts of it are in disrepair, so work will include clean-up, trimming hedges, and potting plants. | ||
| Northside, Peralta, Karl Linn Community Gardens | Northside, Peralta, and Karl Linn Community Gardens, three quiet neighborhood gardens, serve as a reminder of the raw beauty of a true California garden. Work at this site will include planting, weeding, and beautification work. | ||
| People's Park Peace Garden | Aimed to recreate agricultural fields, the People's Park Peace Garden works to create not just a garden in People's Park, but a symbol of peace and serenity for the world to see. Work at this site will include gardening and beautification work. | ||
| Schoolhouse Creek Commons | In 2005, when the asphalt that had covered the meadow for decades was demolished, the site graded by the Berkeley Unified School District, and neighbors gathered to begin planting what would become Schoolhouse Creek Common, a child-friendly community garden and park. This attractive public space contains a wide diversity of natives that will do well in the flats, as well as an orchard, lawn, and an assortment of drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants. Work at this site will include beautification and general aesthetic improvement. | ||
| Spiral Gardens | Spiral Gardens Nursery makes useful plants available at affordable prices. The nursery specializes in edible plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, California native and other habitat supporting plants. The Community Farm produces food that goes to low-income seniors in the adjacent housing complex. Work will involve gardening, weeding and organizing. | ||
| Strawberry Creek UCB Dept. of EH&S | Strawberry Creek is home to a growing number of native animals and plants due to a restoration project started in 1987. Work on this site will include habitat maintenance and restoration by ivy removal. | ||
We may be adding more sites. Keep on the lookout!
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