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Lakeside Park offers amenities for all ages.

Oakland Parks Coalition, a volunteer organization in Oakland, California, recognizes the importance of public parks to the health and well-being of urban dwellers and has worked since 2001 to promote stewardship as a means to improving the quality of Oakland's parks.

 Choose among three easy ways to help keep Oakland parks healthy and beautiful:
 

                               1. Survey parks on Love Your Parks Day.

Click here for event details.

                                 2. Become a park steward and take the Park Steward Pledge.

Click here

                                  3. Join the Oakland Parks Coalition.

Click here

 

 Urban parks contribute to the vitality of communities in various ways:  

          ♥     Helping youth to build physical, intellectual, emotional, and social strengths;

          ♥     Helping residents improve their health by providing a place to enjoy fresh air and exercise;

          ♥     Helping to build community through working together and playing together;

          ♥     Lowering crime-when youth are off the street engaged in after school recreation programs crime

             takes a holiday.

 

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Is your park on the "No Routine Maintenance" list?

SAVE THE DATES,
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES,
REPORTS

Saturday, August 14, 2010, 9am-1pm

Please join OPC's volunteers to help restore the Bancroft Median to its former glory!

Click here to get details of this all-city effort to clean up a once beautiful median

that has been hit hard by maintenance cutbacks.

 

M-F 3:30
OPC annual report on the state of Oakland Parks now available.

Click here for report and survey documents.

2010 PARK PRIORITY LIST:

Which parks and green spaces will receive little or no routine maintenance?

Click here to download file

Volunteer Opportunities
Would you like to help out with park or median beautification? Click here for some suggestions.

See pictures of the 2010 Volunteer Appreciation Evening District Award Winners.

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