Category: Berkeley Partners for Parks

This is the location for general BPFP announcements.

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Celebrate Schoolhouse Creek with Bayshore Bug Hunt, Art Making, More

Saturday, May 31, celebrate historic Schoolhouse Creek in the Eastshore State Park with a bug hunt, making art from natural materials, a picnic, and interpretive walk or bike ride. Fun for all ages!

  • 10 – 11:30 am, discover the fascinating and varied miniature world of insects with Cal Bug People.
  • 11:30 am – 1 pm, enjoy a bring-your-own picnic (we’ll supply snacks and water) and short interpretive walk or bike ride. You’ll learn about the history and future of our waterfront, and how this former dump is being transformed.
  • 1 – 2:30 pm, environmental artist Zach Pine will lead us making art with found materials at the "glass beach" and miniature salt marsh at the creek mouth.

Attend one or all — everything is free, but numbers are limited. Information and registration at 510 848 9358 or f5creeks@aol.com.

Directions: GREAT bike ride on the Bay Trail, also reachable by AC Transit 9, which stops on University just across from Sea Breeze Deli. From there, walk 5 minutes north on Bay Trail. You’ll see our sign at the turnout and trail that was Virginia Extension. By car, parking at the site is very limited — park at Sea Breeze Deli, south side of University Ave. just west of I-880/580, and walk 5 minutes north on the Bay Trail as above.

Online maps: "Virginia St and W Frontage Rd, Berkeley," only there is no Virginia St. — look for the small turnout and trail and our sign.

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Annual update of 2007 Activities

Our annual Update highlights activities of BPFP and our affiliate groups from 2007:

From the Board introduction:

We are hopeful the energizing power of partnerships will become a theme of the 21st century. Around the world individuals are organizing in their local areas to improve their lives, and Berkeley Partners for Parks is a leader in those efforts in our community.

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Parks Partnership Fund:

  • Celebrate a milestone
  • Honor an achievement
  • Remember someone who has passed
  • Create a greener, more welcoming, more enjoyable Berkeley

Parks Partnership Fund

This fund offers groups and individuals the opportunity to contribute to specified projects in parks and other green spaces in Berkeley, such as:

  • Sustainable, environmentally friendly plantings
  • Attractive pathways, fencing, or railings
  • Playground equipment, chess tables, recycling containers, benches, and other ‘furniture’
  • Interpretive signs for natural areas or sites of historic interest

Donations can be made in memory of or in honor of someone, or as a celebration of a special occasion, achievement, or milestone.

Contact Berkeley Partners for Parks by email, letter, or phone for a current list of opportunities or to discuss your idea for a project. Donations to the fund in general also are welcome — simply send a check made out to BPFP, with an indication that it is for the Parks Partnership Fund and any information as to a person or occasion that you wish to honor. The money will be used for the highest-priority projects.

Berkeley Partners for Parks
P.O. Box 13673
Berkeley, CA 94712
510-849-1969 (Phone/fax)
info@bpfp.org

Gifts will be acknowledged with a letter and a certificate of appreciation, and the City Council will recognize each year’s honorees.

All donations are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donors receive no goods or services.

Donors also receive a complementary 1-year membership in Berkeley Partners for Parks, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that since 1995 has served as fiscal umbrella and advisor for dozens of citizens groups working for recreation, parks, gardens, open space, restoration, and related efforts. Our track record of responsible stewardship is recognized by commissions, the City Council, and City staff.

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Volunteer to help with oil spill clean up (Oiled Wildlife Care Network and Baykeeper)

Oil spill mapAs of Saturday, the Oiled Wildlife Care Network has enough volunteers, but check their web site if you are interested: UC Davis: Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

On Friday afternoon, November 9, the tide tubes that connect Berkeley’s Aquatic Park with the SF Bay were closed to minimize intrusion of oil into Aquatic Park. City officials are also concerned with pollution reaching the Marina and other Berkeley aquatic facilities.

More details on the “Cosco Busan” oil spill can be found on the California Department of Fish and Game’s website.

See also SFBaykeeper.org for other volunteer opportunities and updates.