As I write this blog post for the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, my last as president of this fine organization, I feel the need to recap, reflect and look ahead.
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is committed to shining a light on our parks, helping to enhance, maintain and grow an already impressive line-up of community parks. Now's your opportunity to support the parks you love by joining us for our 2019 Trail-A-Thon fundraiser. And if you're wondering why support MVPF, here’s just some of what we've accomplished in the past year with the donations and volunteer support our community entrusted to us…
Here’s the highlights of what we all accomplished together during 2018 and what’s ahead for 2019.
For the second year in a row, MVPF has organized an educational outreach program that sent 450 Mount Vernon area 5th Graders to Little Mountain Park for a day of physical activity and appreciation of our prized local natural resource that is Little Mountain Park.
This summer our Trail Builders hope to brush out some sections of trail which have gotten overgrown, complete repair work on rockery walls, add rock armoring to sections of the flow trail, and take a well-earned vacation (August).
The mission of the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is to “Create a sustainable and connected community that encourages active, healthy living”. With this in mind, we have decided to take a more progressive approach to …
