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Environmental Lobby Day
Wednesday April 9
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The State House
Come to the State House for Environmental Lobby Day to lobby for
the Environmental Bond Bill to be passed this session. The event
will begin at Appalachian Mountain Club Cabot Auditorium at 5 Joy
St and move on to the Sate House. If you or your group plan to attend
please send an e-mail to info@envirobond.org.
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Franklin Park Clean-up Day
Saturday April 12
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Giraffe Entrance to the Zoo
The weather is getting warmer! Celebrate by coming out and putting Franklin Park back
into shape after the long winter. Volunteers will be cleaning and
clearing out invasive plants. Please wear old clothes and bring
gloves and clippers. They will be provided for those who don't
have them. Coffee and donuts will start the day! Please send an
e-mail RSVP to mail@franklinparkcoalition.org if you plan to attend. Meet at the Giraffe Entrance to the Zoo.
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Rose Garden Opening Day
Saturday April 19
Back Bay Fens
 Once
again we are thankful to have the Fenway Shaw's Supermarket volunteer a
team to come out and work on the historic rose garden in the Back
Bay Fens. Volunteers will be cutting off the winter kill and preparing
for a new growing season.
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Boston's Greenways: Eight Missing Links
Tuesday April 22
6:30 p.m.
Northeastern University
The April 22 event will serve as Northeastern Professor Peter Furth's civil
and environmental engineering students' official
final presentation for their senior design class with five teams
presenting. The students have created group projects to design
bikeways/walking paths for challenging sections of the Emerald
Necklace. The presentations will be in room 108 Snell
Engineering Center at Northeastern University. The Emerald
Necklace Conservancy is co-hosting this event with Fenway
Alliance, Mass Bike, Walk Boston and the Solomon Fund. |
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Olmsted Park's Woodlands: How You Can Help
Wednesday, April 23
6:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Arnold Arboretum: Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall
 The
Emerald Necklace Conservancy will host an information session on April
23 to inform volunteers on the next steps of the woodland
restoration. Come and find out how you can help this
season! Light refreshments will be provided. The session will be held
at the Arnold Arboretum through the main entrance on
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Muddy River Cleanup
Saturday April 26
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The
Muddy River Cleanup will take place on April 26th from 9am -
noon! This event is being held in conjunction with the 9th Annual Earth
Day Charles River Cleanup.
The
Cleanup involves over 2,000 volunteers helping to beautify the Charles
River by picking up trash and cleaning the riverbanks at over 40
sites from Milford to Boston. Since the Emerald Necklace's Muddy
River is a tributary of the Charles, we are expanding the
cleanup there this year. We will be focusing on the area from The
Landmark Center through the Back Bay Fens.
Please feel free to call or email with any questions or to volunteer!
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 Emerald Necklace CONSERVANCY
5th Annual
Party in the Park
Justine Mee Liff Fund Luncheon
to preserve the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace
May 14, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Tours of the Kelleher Rose Garden,
Museum of Fine Arts Japanese Garden and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Courtyard
11:30 Cocktail Reception ~ 12:30 Luncheon
Back Bay Fens, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Footbridge Entrance
The Fenway
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Tuesdays With Roses
Tuesday June 3
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
The very popular 'Tuesdays with Roses' will start up again on June
3rd and continue to meet every week throughout the summer. The
program gives volunteers a chance to learn proper rose care from
gardeners and rosarians while keeping the roses looking gorgeous for
the summer season.
Click here to Volunteer! |
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Sounds & Scenes Family Festival at Olmsted Park
Saturday June 7
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
FREE!
Sounds
and Scenes is a celebration of music and landscape in the Emerald
Necklace with musical performances, food, and fun activities for
all ages. The musical performace schedule is:
Maria Sangiolo 10:00 a.m.
Faculty & students 11:00 a.m.
from Brookline Music School
Lorraine & Bennett 12:00 p.m.
The
festival will be located on Olmsted Park's Allerton overlook on Pond
Avenue. This is on the Brookline side of Leverett Pond.
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Painting the Fenway Rose Garden
Friday, June 27
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 'Painting
the Fenway Rose Garden' is a painting workshop with
instructor Ed Stitt that will focus on the beauty of the Kelleher
Rose Garden. It is the perfect opportunity for people with some
previous painting experience to escape the city life and lose
themselves in the light, color and pattern of the roses. The
registration deadline is June 6.
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