What's up at Clemente Park and Playground!?!?

UPCOMING EVENTS:

put these in your calendar and pass them to friends!!!

THIS Sunday, June 14: co-ed soccer scrimmage: 7 PM at the field

Wednesday, June 17: FENCE PAINTING HAPPY HOUR 6:30 PM (stay as long as you want--we'll go out for a drink afterwards) - to continue to make progress on painting the fence that surrounds the park black - to make it look better (or rather, so it is invisible!!)

MOVIE NIGHTS on THE LAST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH;

June, July, August! Movies TBA

First Movie night: Friday, June 26th 8:30 PM

Picnic in the Park!!! Saturday, July 18th 2 PM

Clemente Park & Playground Updates

Hello!  A big thanks to Trista, Chalo, Kim, Terrance, Davis and Sean for coming out to the meeting today! 

Items of note:

1) Kim and I will be meeting with the Department of Public Property which had a hand in drawing up the plans for the revitalized Clemente Playground (ground to break Fall '09) on Thursday to ask some questions and get some clarity on the following:

-trees; are any of the trees currently in the park going to be preserved? it is hard to tell from the plan

-Will the fence that surrounds the park be replaced?  If not, more painting days will be organized to ensure it is completely black by the end of the summer!

-To what extent will there be new signage for the park?

- Will the plan account for Doggie Pick-up bag dispensers and recycling bins?

- Will there be gates or gaps in the fence?

-Is there any plan to possibly include community bulletin boards?

-Is it possible to discuss the vacant concrete lot adjacent to Waring School and possibly converting what is now concrete into a garden for Waring students?

2) Movie nights

-Trista will be gathering information from resources around the city about organizing three movie nights throughout the summer in June, July and August.

-Popcorn and hotdogs will be in full effect!

3) Terrance spoke to the Police about installing a barricade for Mt. Vernon Street between 19th and 18th.  He will follow up and find out when we can expect this to be installed.

4) Picnic in Clemente Day idea proposed--will hopefully happen mid-summer- as it is a relatively self-sufficient event whereby families and individuals set up their own picnic in the park.  Our group will pull together the live musical entertainment that will happen.

5)  Weekly volunteer-led instructional activity idea was discussed.  The idea is to pull from our networks--any individuals (this includes all of you!) with any kind of talent or special skill to share; whether it's salsa dancing or yoga, scrap booking or basic personal finance, once a week we are going to try to schedule a series of free instructional/fun community events to take place at the rec center!  Anybody interested in sharing a skill for ONE NIGHT this summer with children or adults, please let us know!!!

Next kickball game will be Thursday, June 4th at 7 PM.  Next meeting for Friends of Clemente will be announced soon!

Updates!

We discussed a few things in the meeting last night.

1)  Fence Painting Completion

-waiting to hear back on whether the city has plans to replace the entire fence as a part of the   improvevment plan slated to start in the fall

-if the city will not replace the fence, we will schedule subsequent painting days

2) Movie Nights

-planning for 3 movie nights to happen on the 3rd friday in June, July and August

-Movies will be screened out doors at sundown and will be family friendly

-We are trying to figure out where to get a screen from - someone in the group has access to a projector!

3) End of Summer Celebration

-We discussed organizing a big summer festival in the park and many of the group members would rather have this kick off coincide with "back to school" to allow us to have more planning time

4) Better Communication Tools

-possibly starting a physical newsletter for us to communicate with the entire neighborhood- costs could be covered by strategic partnershis with local business

5) Summer programs and mentorship opportunities

Please shoot me an e-mail (fairmountisfun@gmail.com ) if you would like to talk about any of these further--or have anything to add to next meeting's agenda!

Next meeting and kickball game will be Wednesday, May 27th at 6:30 PM (Kickball at 7:30)

See yoou then!!!!!!!!!!!

NEXT KICKBALL GAME AND MEETING

May 13th, WEDNESDAY

Meeting at 6:30 (at the Rec Center located at 18th and Wallace)

Kickball at 7:30!!!!

NEXT MEETING MAY 1st at 6:30

at the rec center.

Also there will be a kickball game on May 5th at 7 PM!!!!

MEETING TONIGHT!

@ St. Andrew's Church at 19th and Wallace 6 PM

with Councilman Darrell Clarke of our 5th District!!!!!!!

We will be hearing from him regarding the city's plans for Clemente Park & Playground!

BE THERE, PLEASE!

Saturday Clean up on the 18th of April!!!!!

Hope to see you there!  Should be a good time.

Starts at 10:30 AM!

Shouldn't go past 1 PM!

Clean Up Pictures!

Brian Howard from the City Paper wrote this:

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT AND MADE IT POSSIBLE!

The Project in the Philly Metro!

(click the photo for a link to the article!)

Clean Up TOMORROW!

Starts @ 10:30 AM--if you get there early you can help us set up!

Please wear comfy Clothes!

Should go no later than 2 PM!

HOORAY!!!!

Oh, Roberto; FUNDRAISER TOMORROW!!!

NEXT MEETING ON MONDAY 3/30

Anyone interested in learning more about the project to revitalize Clemente Park & Playground--come to the Clemente Park Rec Center on Monday at 6:30 PM!

Any questions? E-mail Fairmountisfun@gmail.com

Moving right along...

ickball on Saturday was wonderful!! The weather was warm and the park and playground were buzzing with tons of people.

We played for about an hour and there were about 12 kids and 12 adults there--our teams were "Team Cheesesteak" and "Team Chicken Wings."  I'm pretty sure the Cheesesteaks won.

The next meeting for the revitalization of Clemente Playground/ Park will be Monday 3/16 at 6:30 PM @ St. Stephen's Green.

Meeting on Thursday!

There will be a meeting for anyone interested in helping out with the project on Monday, March 2nd at 6:30 PM!

It will be at St. Stephen's Green at 1701 Green Street.

Hope to see you there!

Vision for Clemente Playground!!!!!!!

Vision: A BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY SPACE!

Goals:

- Installation of Bleachers and repair of benches
- GRASS on the field
- Separated Dog Run area
- Trees planted around playground
- Spray Pool Repair and update
- Freshly painted jungle gym/bathrooms
- Installation of new park signage: 1) large Clemente sign 2) doggie clean up reminder sign
- Functional/repaired fence


Stay tuned.....

Ode to Joyous Kickball

On a cold and magical December's day,
Some really neat folks gathered to play.

They set up cones, invited friends on their phones and forgot all about their student loans.

At first it looked like the turn-out would be weak,
But one by one people started to sneak

Onto

the

field!

The teams got bigger as the game went on,
We got some kids and even a mom!

They played with great heart, soul and passion,
Laurent and Rashim wore some hot winter fashions.

From fouls to home runs the game did escalate,
Pitchers poison was the illest debate.

After the game we went to St. Stephen's Green,
With beers in our hands we were living the dream!

All in all we had a good time,
So good in fact, it caused me to rhyme.

Thanks to all who endured the cold,
Here's to playing kickball 'til we're 90 years old!

WELCOME TO FAIRMOUNT IS FUN!

Welcome! So glad you could make it!

This is where updates will live for all things related to Fairmount is Fun, an organization whose mission is: to unite the community by providing an outlet for Fairmount residents and friends to participate in interactive games in a fun environment.

I will be going out of the country for a little while and so:

The next kickball game will be Tuesday, August 19th at 7:30 PM.

I would also love to organize pick-up soccer or lacrosse at some point, so if you have an interest in either of these please e-mail fairmountisfun@gmail.com and we'll set something up!