An exciting new year for Stewart Park and the Waterfront Trail!

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January 24, 2023 View this email in your browser A Look Ahead FSP is looking forward to an exciting new year for the Park and Trail! Thank you for your incredible response to FSP’s Annual Appeal — our most successful ever! Your gifts will help us plan and ongoing and future revitalization projects. FSP received the official signage from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund that will soon be posted in the park. Construction for the new Splash Pad and Accessible Bathrooms will start in late 2023 for a 2024 opening! FSP and Wharton Studio Museum, its partner in park revitalization, are excited to share the latest schematic design renderings from Rochester-based Bero Architecture for the Wharton Studio Park Center. FSP and WSM are thrilled to be working with Bero -- the firm that led the 2021 restoration of the Cascadilla Boathouse exterior -- on this project! The next step in developing the Wharton Studio Park Center (WSPC) is an Addition to the back of the Picnic Pavilion. The addition will provide equipment storage for the City of Ithaca’s beloved Stewart Park Day Camp. The equipment is currently housed in the section of the Wharton Studio Building being developed into the WSPC. The 925 sq. ft. addition will convienently consolidate the Day Camp’s operation into one building, enhancing camper safety and providing easy access to boats, bikes and other sports equipment and arts and crafts supplies. Supplies will be accessible through an interior doorway within the pavilion, as well as by a large garage door, which will make it much easier to remove large equipment like canoes. The addition will also greatly enhance the aesthetic of the south facade of the Pavilion. The annual Stewart Park Spring Waterfront Cleanup will take place late March or early April this year. We’ll send out more details closer to the event. I Love My Park Day is scheduled for Saturday, May 6, 2023. Volunteers help with garden beds, playground cleanup, and more. This event is a great way to help Stewart Park prepare for summer. As always, if you are interested in receiving emails explicitly about volunteer opportunities in Stewart Park and on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, subscribe to the FSP volunteer listserv. Volunteer Listserv Friends of Stewart Park is once again organizing weekend sponsorships of the Carousel. When you, your business or organization sponsor the Carousel, bring a smile to thousands of children! In 2021 and 2022, carousel sponsorships provided between 15,000 and 20,000 free rides! Visit www.stewartpark.org/carousel-sponsor to learn more! On August 12th, 2023, Friends of Stewart Park is planning to bring back the Paddle, Pedal and Play Festival! Initiated in 2019, the festival invites attendees to spend an afternoon trying all the outdoor recreation options the Finger Lakes has to offer. That same day will feature Watermusic and Dancing on the Trail, a lovely and popular evening of music along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail to be enjoyed from the trail or the water! The Picnic Pavilion has been reserved for Party for the Park 2023. We hope you’ll join Friends of Stewart Park and Wharton Studio Museum for this annual fundraiser — our 8th year! Details to follow! 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

2022 in Pictures

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Memories of 2022 in the Park and on the Trail

December 28, 2022 The Year in Pictures Memories of 2022 on in the Park and on the Trail Thank you for your love of Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail!  This week is the last opportunity to make a 2022 charitable gift to FSP. Your gift allows us to continue our work revitalizing and enhancing Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. Donate online with the link below, return the FSP mailing you may have received, or mail a check to: FSP, 120 Brindley Street, Suite 4, Ithaca 14850. If you’d like to make a gift of stock to FSP, please email Rick. Again, thank you for all you do for FSP, Stewart Park and the Waterfront Trail!  Give Today 1. The Inclusive Playground settled in for a winter's nap. 2. Great views of East Hill from Cass Park, the 2 miles where the Cayuga Waterfront Trail receives regular winter maintence (see map here). 3. The exterior wall of the Fuertes Overlook was restored thanks to a $20,000 gift from the estate of Dr. Tapan Mitra, a leading economic theorist and long-serving professor at Cornell University and bird lover. Read more about this project. 4. Spring means rowers in the inlet and daffodiles on the trail, thanks to the Daff-a-Dazzle project, by the Ithaca Garden Club, City of Ithaca, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and the Cornell School of Integrative Plant Science. 5. We are so grateful to the dozens of volunteers came out for both the Spring Waterfront Cleanup and I Love My Park Day this year.  6. Mayor Lewis spoke at the ribbon cutting celebration for the new trailhead where the Black Diamond Trail intersects the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park in June. The new trailhead, which honors the late Andrejs Ozolins, a local cycling advocate was designed, funded and installed by NYS Parks, with additional support from Ithaca's bicycling community. Cayuga Ski & Cyclery donated the Trail's first bicycle tool and pump station and FSP contributed way-finding signs and CWT map, and installed a CWT bench thanks to the support of the Ithaca Veteran Volunteer Firefighter Association. If you'd like to sponsor another bench or a bike rack, contact FSP at 607-319-4766 or email Rick.  7. Digging into the history of the Stewart Park Carousel for its 70th birthday led us to this previously unpublished photo of the carousel and train, circa 1955. The photo is courtsey of Bob Venesky, grandson of Robert L. Cochran, who initially brought the train and carousel to the park. Learn more about the Carousel's history and see more pictures here. 8. We had lots of fun celebrating the Stewart Park Carousel's 70th Birthday with free rides for all. In attendance was Larry Siany (pictured above with his wife Lena) who has taken a ride on the carousel every one of its seventy years, including 2015 when his grandaughter Julia John repainted the horses along with Christi Sobel.  Thank you to Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca, EZ Claw, Northstar House, Visions Federal Credit Union and Cornell Concert Series for sponsoring free rides on the Carousel this summer! 9. It was a great year for Watermusic & Dancing on the Trail! Thank you to Triphammer Arts for coordinating this event with the Friends of Stewart Park. 10. Aryana and Sonya showed us how accessibility on the playground, and in the park as a whole, makes a difference in their lives! 11. The weather was perfect for Party for the Park, FSP and Wharton Studio Museum's annual fundraiser for park revitalization in the Picnic Pavilion.  12. Views of Cayuga Lake were enhanced thanks to the Ithaca Dragon Boat Club's work trimming back invasive False Indigo Bush along the shoreline.  13. The ICSD Code Red Robotics team brought lots of energy to the park as they cleaned, raked and cut back invasive brush.  14. A new bench swing fabricated by Accufab was installed in memory of Nadia Rubaii. 15. An extension to the accessible pathway was created thanks to financial support from The Rotary Club of Ithaca Sunrise. Thanks the Rotary Club and other volunteers and the City of Ithaca Department of Public Works for coming out in the rain and going the extra mile to make this project happen.  16. FSP and its partner in park revitlaization, Wharton Studio Museum, received the latest schematic design renderings from Rochester-based Bero Architecture for the Wharton Studio Park Center project. FSP and WSM are excited to be working with Bero -- the firm that led the restoration of the Cascadilla Boathouse -- on this project! Wishing you a Happy New Year, from all of us at Friends of Stewart Park! Friends of Stewart Park is a non-profit organization with a mission to enhance, revitalize and maintain Stewart Park and the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, in partnership with the City of Ithaca and park stakeholders, for the enjoyment of Ithaca residents and visitors to our community.     MAKE A GIFT    Copyright © 2022 Friends of Stewart Park, Inc., All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.