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An Exciting Designation, Spring Cleaning, Birding, Racing and more!

April 5, 2023 View this email in your browser Good Things Are Happening! Spring Events and an Exciting Designation Friends of Stewart Park just received news that Stewart Park has officially been added to the State Register of Historic Places! This important designation is the result of a collaboration between FSP, Wharton Studio Museum and Historic Ithaca — together our organizations received a grant from Preserve New York to hire historic preservation consultant Jessie Ravage to complete the nomination application for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Stewart Park has now been recommended to the National Register, and we will make an announcement once we hear if the Park’s nomination has been approved! Join us for the annual Stewart Park Spring Waterfront Cleanup this Saturday, April 8, from 10 am to noon! This Saturday is looking like a great day for a park cleanup! Remember to still dress for the weather, wear boots, and bring gloves. Wear your FSP VOLUNTEER shirt if you have one! We’ll have garbage bags & litter grabbers, but you’re welcome to bring your own too. Together we'll practice good stewardship of our park and Cayuga Lake’s waterfront. Meet at the Picnic “Large” Pavilion. Thank you to our event partner Zero Waste Ithaca for their help in this cleanup. Like and Share the event on Facebook. Are you on FSP and Cayuga Waterfront Trail Volunteer List? Be the first to hear about volunteer opportunities by signing up for the list at friendsofstewartpark.org/volunteer. The first of the guided Spring Bird Walks in Stewart Park will be Saturday, April 15! Join Cayuga Bird Club leaders for Bird Walks the 3rd Saturday of the month — that’s April 15, May 20 and June 17. Dress for the weather, bring your binoculars, and meet at the Cascadilla Boathouse at 9:00 am. Love Stewart Park? Come out for I Love My Park Day on Saturday, May 6, from 10AM-noon! We'll prep the park for summer by cleaning up garden beds, planting new landscaping, raking the playground, mulching, trimming lakeside vegetation, and more. Dress for the weather and bring your gloves, rakes, clippers and other gardening tools. Meet at the Information Kiosk by the playground. This event is sponsored in part by Parks and Trails New York. If you plan to participate, they would love it if you would register on their website! Registration is not required, but appreciated! Join our friends Ithaca Garden Club and Ithaca Children’s Garden for the inaugural Daffodil Dash 5K and 1-mile run/walk on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail! The run takes place Saturday, April 22. As they run, participants will undoubtedly be delighted at the sight of almost 90,000 blooming daffodils planted along the Cayuga Inlet by the Ithaca Garden Club’s Daff-A-Dazzle community-wide project team! Learn more and register. Thanks to Maddy Vogel for featuring Friends of Stewart Park’s volunteer program and sustainability efforts in the Ithaca College newspaper, Ithaca Week. We appreciate her thoughtful and thorough reporting! If you missed Friends of Stewart Park's presentation "Pollinator Pathway: Improving Biodiversity in Public Park, Trails and Our Own Backyards" with Environmental Management Mary Ellen Lemay was recorded and can now view it on YouTube. Please share it with anyone you think would be interested! You can also see past FSP presentations and other shorter videos highlighting things like the Inclusive Playground on the Friends of Stewart Park YouTube channel. Protecting Pollinators While it’s exciting to get into the garden, its important to remember that wintered-over plants create vital habitat for bees and other pollinators. Friends of Stewart Park has been reading up on spring landscape cleanps. Here are a couple posts to help you reist them tempation to cut and pull too soon. For Pollinators' Sakes, Don’t Spring Into Garden Cleanup Too Soon! Spring Clean Up Doesn't Start at 50 Degrees Photo credit: The Deep Middle More Park and Trail News Work in Stewart Park! Love Stewart Park? Why not work there!?! The City of Ithaca is currently looking for seasonal maintenance & cleaning staff, as well as people to run the carousel! Please spread the word! Read about the positions at here. Friends of Stewart Park is excited to once again organize weekend Carousel Sponsorships. You, your business or organization can sponsor free rides for children! Your sponsorship has a huge impact! In 2021 and 2022, carousel sponsorships provided between 15,000 and 20,000 free rides! Visit www.stewartpark.org/carousel-sponsor to learn more! Our Friends at Zero Waste Ithaca are hosting a month-long giveaway to celebrate Earth Month and 100+ local businesses signing up for the BYO Ithaca Reduces Program. Check our them out on various social media apps to learn what the prizes will be and how to enter! Zero Waste Ithaca is tackling various aspects of zero waste with a new prompt and different prizes each week. Copyright (C) 2023 Friends of Stewart Park, Inc.. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe