tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68276673409788896702024-03-14T03:18:40.953-07:00Panhandle Park StewardsDale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-77471201937659261412019-12-30T15:36:00.001-08:002019-12-30T15:37:49.961-08:00Final post after ten years of Panhandle Park StewardsAs 2020 approaches, we're celebrating ten years of service and laying down our rake.<br />
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As this website is no longer active, visit <a href="http://sfrecpark.org/">sfrecpark.org</a> or sign up for the District 5 Insider to stay current with park news and volunteering:<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-65643100463174833422019-11-12T16:34:00.000-08:002019-11-12T16:34:00.632-08:00Exercise equipment coming to the PanhandleAccording to postings at the park, "A new outdoor gym will be installed in the Panhandle. The new exercise area is projected to open in January 2020."<br />
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The poster shows that the exercise equipment will be placed just west of the basketball courts, which is currently a stretch of unprogrammed asphalt. The Project Manager from Rec and Park, Kelli Rudnick, can be reached at 415.581.2561.<br />
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-47203818022837822582019-11-12T16:14:00.004-08:002019-11-12T16:14:46.324-08:00Panhandle Playground opens today!!!!!!!!!!The park experienced a major step today with the opening of the completely new Panhandle Playground. The new playground was built with taxpayer funds from the 2012 San Francisco Parks Bond. Private donations supported the community input process and design.<br />
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Among all the introduced trees seen in the parks of San Francisco, the Queensland Kauri Pine (<i>Agathis robusta</i>) is one of the less common. Kauri Pines have leathery, evergreen leaves, and grow very tall. Like the more commonly seen Norfolk Island Pine, the Queensland Kauri Pine is in the auricariaceae family. The Panhandle has one mature Kauri Pine - located near Cole Street. Nearby are two young Kauri Pines planted in recent years, and now, there's a third, planted just this weekend by the Panhandle Park Stewards under the supervision of SF Rec and Park gardening staff.<br />
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In addition to volunteers from the community, the SF Bridgemen joined the work group on Saturday, helping with the other projects of the morning: cutting back sucker growth from the elms and redwoods, raking and pulling weeds, and trimming a few of the large shrubs found near Lyon Street on the south side of the park.<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-77173030400461908462019-05-15T16:18:00.000-07:002019-05-15T16:18:05.140-07:00Still recruiting new leader to promote & continue the community workdays at the Panhandle Park<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<b>This volunteer position is still open! There is a need for a new community leader to promote monthly community workdays at the Panhandle. </b><b>We are seeking a n</b><b>ew volunteer to assume this role by the end of 2019 when my service will come to a conclusion.</b></div>
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CONTACT -Dale Danley / <a href="mailto:dale987@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">dale987@gmail.com</a> / <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1558048584731000&usg=AFQjCNFxEUysJ7WOI6EQNZfVLmcLmo2VWA" href="http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">panhandl<wbr></wbr>epark.blogspot.com</a> / @4thePanhandle</div>
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North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association, Email: <a href="mailto:board@nopna.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">board@nopna.org</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b> Volunteer leadership position: </b><b>Director for Community Engagement </b></div>
The Director for Community Engagement is responsible for continuation and development of Panhandle Park Stewards, which mobilizes volunteers to take part in a monthly community workday. This volunteer position is accountable to the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA). NOPNA is fiscal sponsor of this project, collecting and managing any funds for the Panhandle Park Stewards. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department provides staff, tools, and management of the community workday.<br /><br /><u>Basic Responsibilities </u><br /><ol>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Attend the monthly community workday at the Panhandle Park, to greet volunteers from the community and provide a liaison with parks staff </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Disseminate information to the public about the community workday by managing a listserv, sending two emails per month </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Respond to public inquiries about the community workday by email and telephone </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">On an annual basis, contact the staff of the parks department to schedule the community workdays and provide statistics of the number of participants during the previous year </li>
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<u>Additional opportunities</u><br /><ul>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Post photos and written descriptions to the website/blog dedicated to the project </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Expand promotional efforts to let more people know about the workday by posting in social media, writing articles for neighborhood newsletters, and putting posters on the park bulletin board </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Enlist other community based groups (e.g.,San Francisco Day School, Bridgemen, One Brick) to bring their volunteers to the monthly workday </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Raise funds for the project through sponsorships and donations </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Spend funds collected on items such as volunteer appreciation events </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Monitor park-related plans and activities undertaken by the Parks Department and other city agencies including SFMTA, SFDPW, and SF Arts Commission </li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">In collaboration with other neighbors and local organizations, write grant proposals for park improvements </li>
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<b>If interested, please contact Dale Danley (<a href="mailto:dale987@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">dale987@gmail.com</a>) or the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association.</b><br /><br />Panhandle Park Stewards <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1558048584731000&usg=AFQjCNFxEUysJ7WOI6EQNZfVLmcLmo2VWA" href="http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Panhandlepark.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com</a><br />North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nopna.org/&source=gmail&ust=1558048584731000&usg=AFQjCNHxlS6Ge4cz8zQr2c3p9onI2kBIwA" href="http://www.nopna.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.nopna.org</a></div>
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-56961274216975922912019-04-24T15:19:00.002-07:002019-04-24T15:19:39.181-07:00April workday, with major projects underway in the Panhandle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At our workday in the Panhandle on Saturday, April 13, volunteers from the community worked together on one of our most important ongoing projects: caring for the trees in the park. We removed weeds from around the trees so that the park workers can maintain a safe distance from the trees while mowing the park's grassy meadows. </div>
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As part of the morning's work, we also performed some ongoing maintenance work in the rain garden, removing some of the weeds and trimming back some of the most aggressive growth. With the Panhandle Playground project having begun, a fence is now installed right at the very edge of the rain garden, allowing for the removal and eventual rebuilding of the pathway. </div>
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A Groundbreaking event sponsored by Rec and Park and the San Francisco Parks Alliance is planned for tomorrow, Thursday, April 25, from 11 am to noon. All are welcome to attend, meet your neighbors and city officials, and learn more about the Panhandle Playground and other playground renovations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The irrigation project was also active on April 13, with some trenching around the southwest corner of Fell & Masonic. </td></tr>
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-28296825656188177592019-01-19T16:00:00.000-08:002019-11-12T16:16:04.597-08:00January workday report; playground project launching this month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Community volunteers gathered last week, on a sunny Saturday morning, to work with our park gardener. We scooped up mountains of eucalyptus bark and branches that have fallen in the recent stormy weather. We also removed weeds (& broken glass) from the rain garden. At the end of the program, we gathered for this snapshot, taking a minute to remember the projects over the past several years that have improved the area around the playground. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-flowering currant is one of the California native perennials that flourished next to the playground. Enjoy their final blooms this weekend before the heavy equipment arrives! </td></tr>
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Big changes are coming to these areas (in the left half of the picture above) as part of the playground project. Starting this coming Tuesday, Jan 22, crews will perform tree work on eucalyptus, cypress, and elms around the Panhandle Playground. Further details are at <a href="https://sfrecpark.org/project/panhandle-playground-letsplaysf-initiative/" target="_blank">the department's project webpage</a>.<br />
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-44390194042626761832018-11-14T15:13:00.001-08:002018-11-14T15:13:41.600-08:00Panhandle Park Stewards - Volunteer leadership position now open<b>We are seeking a new volunteer to assume leadership for the Panhandle Park Stewards. </b><br />
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Volunteering in the lead role is an opportunity to:<br />
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<li>Improve your skills in leading and coordinating volunteers </li>
<li>Develop relationships with city staff and other community leaders </li>
<li>Learn about tree care, native plants, and park management practices </li>
<li>Add community service to your resume </li>
<li>Make a difference in a legendary San Francisco park </li>
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What Panhandle Park Stewards has accomplished:<br />
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<li>This project has improved the Panhandle Park through coordinating the efforts of hundreds of volunteers from the community in partnership with the city of San Francisco at a monthly workday. </li>
<li>A top priority has been to improve care for the park’s historically significant mature trees. In addition, volunteers have worked to amend the soil in the park’s meadows, prune shrubs and perennials, remove debris from pathways, and plant trees and gardens. </li>
<li>The project has established a group of dedicated volunteers who participate in the monthly workday (the email list for the workday has 127 members). It has established a durable partnership with a neighborhood school for participation by their families. </li>
<li>Another success of this project was to formulate capital improvements to the park that were implemented in 2012. This project established a rain garden full of native plants and other improvements near the basketball courts and playground. </li>
<li>Panhandle Park Stewards also completed a series of special events to promote neighborhood engagement, funded by the San Francisco Parks Alliance. The project has a blog website and a Twitter account to document and disseminate information pertinent to the park. </li>
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Please contact us! A volunteer job description follows. Neighborhood leaders and the SF Rec and Parks department would like to continue the monthly community workdays in the Panhandle. <b>We are seeking a volunteer from the community to attend these workdays and lead the overall project. During 2019, you can work with the current leader to learn the ropes and meet other people involved in this project. </b><br />
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CONTACT -<br />
Dale Danley / dale987@gmail.com / panhandlepark.blogspot.com / @4thePanhandle<br />
North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association,
Email: board@nopna.org
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<b> Volunteer leadership position: </b><b>Director for Community Engagement </b></div>
The Director for Community Engagement is responsible for continuation and development of Panhandle Park Stewards, which mobilizes volunteers to take part in a monthly community workday. This volunteer position is accountable to the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA). NOPNA is fiscal sponsor of this project, collecting and managing any funds for the Panhandle Park Stewards. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department provides staff, tools, and management of the community workday.<br />
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Basic Responsibilities of the Director of Community Engagement<br />
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<li>Attend the monthly community workday at the Panhandle Park, to greet volunteers from the community and provide a liaison with parks staff </li>
<li>Disseminate information to the public about the community workday by managing a listserv, sending two emails per month </li>
<li>Respond to public inquiries about the community workday by email and telephone </li>
<li>On an annual basis, contact the staff of the parks department to schedule the community workdays and provide statistics of the number of participants during the previous year </li>
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Additional opportunities for the Director of Community Engagement<br />
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<li>Post photos and written descriptions to the website/blog dedicated to the project </li>
<li>Expand promotional efforts to let more people know about the workday by posting in social media, writing articles for neighborhood newsletters, and putting posters on the park bulletin board </li>
<li>Enlist other community based groups (e.g.,San Francisco Day School, Bridgemen, One Brick) to bring their volunteers to the monthly workday </li>
<li>Raise funds for the project through sponsorships and donations </li>
<li>Spend funds collected on items such as volunteer appreciation events </li>
<li>Monitor park-related plans and activities undertaken by the Parks Department and other city agencies including SFMTA, SFDPW, and SF Arts Commission </li>
<li>In collaboration with other neighbors and local organizations, write grant proposals for park improvements </li>
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If interested, please contact Dale Danley (dale987@gmail.com) or the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association.<br />
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Panhandle Park Stewards
Panhandlepark.blogspot.com<br />
North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association
www.nopna.orgDale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-4308349525379992782018-10-15T14:48:00.003-07:002018-10-15T14:56:53.280-07:00Report of our October workdayOn a beautiful fall morning, neighbors and families from the San Francisco Day School joined together with the the gardening staff of SF Rec and Park Department to take care of our local park, the Panhandle.<br />
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Around our playground (which is slated for a complete rebuilding next year), grows a diverse mix of plantings, like well-established penstemons and butterfly bush. The area also has many large trees that shed their bark and leaves year-round...and so keeping the plantings in good shape takes some extra care and attention from the volunteers.<br />
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Adjacent to the playground, our rain garden has one problem area, on the west edge where seeds of invasive grasses pour in from the surrounding turf during each rainfall. This month's volunteer crew tackled the job of removing these grasses, and then planted in with some clumps of yarrow that grows nearby. Let's hope the yarrow begins to fill in this spot.<br />
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-27868244640539708192018-09-10T16:50:00.001-07:002018-09-10T16:50:25.016-07:00Report of our September workday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Saturday, local residents got together at the Panhandle to help our gardening staff with the continuing effort to keep the Panhandle Park welcoming and beautiful.<br />
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Brian suggested that maintenance of the irrigation system for the rain garden was overdue. That involved opening up the control box, and giving everyone a tutorial on the controls inside. </div>
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It also required an assessment of all of the sprinkler heads, cleaning or replacing those that were clogged or damaged, and in some cases, digging out and and re-positioning the fixture. It was the most thorough maintenance of the irrigation that volunteers have been involved in, and will be important to give the garden some watering during the warm months ahead.<br />
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Not all of the volunteers on Saturday were wrapped up in the irrigation system, others were busy raking out beds, deadheading the blooms and removing weeds from the mound, and trimming back the shrubs surrounding the playground. We wrapped up with some raking of the leaves near the basketball courts.Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-25159109378545020672018-07-19T17:07:00.002-07:002018-07-19T17:07:42.742-07:00Report of our July workday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At our workday on Saturday, Panhandle Park Stewards were out in force to help out our Rec & Park gardening staff with the planted areas around the playground and to recoup some of the pathways that had been covered in mud & debris.<br />
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Summer brings a lot of growth, and our rain garden needed some ongoing weeding and raking. Also widespread basal shoots (suckers) emerging from the roots of the elm trees in the area were sawed or clipped back to the ground. The eclectic plantings around the perimeter of the playground also received some attention. We want them to stay beautiful through their final days before the rebuilding of the playground next year.Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-26535482648568690022018-07-04T12:19:00.002-07:002018-07-04T12:19:47.420-07:00Workdays continuing - join us at the Panhandle July 14Panhandle workdays continue during the summer, with the next one coming up on July 14.<br />
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<b>Tools & gloves are provided - all are welcome!</b><br />
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Recently, the parks department completed work in the Panhandle parklets near Oak @ Stanyan, with tree trimming and turf restoration - the most sod I've ever seen laid in the Panhandle!<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-8028653964972103822018-04-19T11:38:00.001-07:002018-04-19T11:38:15.638-07:00April workday report<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After a morning of raking by a group of volunteers, a thick layer of San Francisco's own home-grown wood-chip mulch now covers the ground beneath the branches of the cherry, plum and horse-chestnut trees at the Panhandle's eastern edge. The mulch will protect the roots of these juvenile trees from the heavy feet of the many, many human visitors the park will see this spring and summer. Over the past several years, volunteers for the community workdays in the Panhandle have spent a good deal of time with this cluster of trees, amending the soil, sheet mulching, and removing weeds. They now provide a welcoming sight, with the pink blooms of the cherry and plum trees in early spring and the large panicles of the horse chestnut holding creamy white flowers in late spring.<br />
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We actually separated into two groups of volunteers, so that several young trees near Clayton could also get a layer of protective mulch. Once these projects were complete, and we were fortified by a snack of homemade baked goods, we ventured to the rain garden and mound to remove spring weeds. In comparison with the perpetually chilly March workday, the April workday was warm and sunny, so it felt good to work in the shade of the Panhandle's tall trees.<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-14989175634507075312018-04-04T13:43:00.000-07:002018-04-04T16:12:45.477-07:00SFMTA presents daylighting proposal for Fell Street Traffic Safety on the Fell Street side of the Panhandle was the topic for the March 20 meeting of the Panhandle Residents Organization. Jeffrey Banks, a traffic planner from SFMTA's Livable Streets presented <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lxG3OarX2rld0NUK67Wn7tsc0xTQFQP9" target="_blank">this slide deck</a> to help explain the benefits of daylighting at multiple intersections and to put the proposal in the context of Fell Street collision data and other safety improvements that have been made to the corridor. The board of the SFMTA will vote on the proposal at an upcoming meeting.<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-83660411125151820812018-04-04T13:31:00.002-07:002018-04-04T13:43:25.971-07:00Panhandle workday on Saturday, April 14<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our next community work day is coming up in a week and a half: </span><br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-28178535145832517832018-03-14T16:53:00.000-07:002018-03-14T16:53:16.232-07:00March Workday report <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Volunteers from the SF Day School and from the neighborhood turned out for Panhandle workday on Saturday, March 10, and removed tons of eucalyptus leaf and bark litter so that our meadows can stay green & clean. </div>
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It was good working with the students and their parents again this month. All the extra hands were needed after the recent storms had brought down so many leaves and bark out of the tall trees. </div>
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Some of our the volunteers were veterans of turning out for the Panhandle workday, and others were out for the first time.<br />
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Our community workday last Saturday was bright and warm, in the middle of a very dry winter. We were greeted in the morning by Rec and Parks employees, who had placed more than a dozen new bunch grasses for planting into the mound. </div>
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Once the grasses were planted, our attention turned to the rain garden, which needed a good weeding after a few months without attention - especially the northside, which gets inundated with annual grasses. <br />
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A bunch of Douglas Iris and a couple of alum root were also brought out by the parks department for planting into the garden. This kind of iris has been very successful in the garden, producing some spectacular purple blooms.<br />
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Nearby, families from the SF Day School worked throughout the morning to clear fallen eucalyptus leaves and branches, with a break for cookies freshly baked by Brian, our friendly Rec and Park gardener. </div>
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-38998601759291776502018-01-20T20:34:00.001-08:002018-01-20T20:34:14.392-08:00January workday with the BridgemenIt was all about raking eucalyptus leaves and bark, tons of it, during our first workday of the year last Saturday. Volunteers picked out their favorite rake (four choices offered!) and then ranged both east and west from Ashbury St. Removing the litter from eucalyptus trees is one of the best ways to promote the health of the grasses covering the meadows in the park.<br />
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It was incredibly helpful to have our numbers boosted by the turnout of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bridgemensf" target="_blank">the Bridgemen</a>, a service organization affiliated with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.<br />
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Second Saturday workdays for the community at the Panhandle Park continue through 2018. The San Francisco Day School continues its active participation this year, too!<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-23696512923217089712017-12-10T11:18:00.002-08:002017-12-10T11:18:46.099-08:00December workday report & the Panhandle gets its first signpostsYesterday at the Panhandle, volunteers from the community joined with Rec and Park's gardening staff for the final community workday of 2017. Afterward, we gathered for our group picture below the new signposts, which, for the first time, proudly name our neighborhood park.<br />
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The morning's work centered around the plantings near the restroom. Starting at the mound, we planted approximately a dozen <i>oenothera</i> - evening primrose, the same variety that has done well nearby and produces yellow blooms on tall flower spikes, leaving behind lots of tasty seeds for the birds. The new primroses were placed in a bare spot on the mound, which otherwise has filled in well with coyote brush, ceanothus, yarrow, strawberry and other native plants <a href="http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/2015/12/workday-report-big-december-planting-at.html" target="_blank">since initial planting two years ago by park staff and volunteers</a>.<br />
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For the rest of the morning, our crew of volunteers was busy with raking eucalyptus leaves from the grass, trimming the honeysuckle shrub bordering the playground, removing weeds from the rain garden, and doing some careful pruning of the dogwoods.<br />
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-79035298487254256672017-11-14T16:44:00.000-08:002017-11-14T16:44:15.851-08:00Tree planting at November workday in the Panhandle (pictures)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Thanks to the participants in our November workday at the Panhandle Park. Assisted by Brian and Frankie, the group took care of a tree planting - a cedar planted near Oak @ Shrader. </div>
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-69366511758688685002017-11-08T12:18:00.001-08:002017-11-08T12:18:39.117-08:00Join the community workday this Saturday, November 11Coming up this weekend:<br />
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Panhandle Community workday<br />
Saturday, November 11<br />
9 am - 12 noon<br />
Meet near the bulletin board (Oak @ Ashbury)<br />
Gloves and Tools provided<br />
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<br />Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-66562361704399672182017-10-12T16:15:00.003-07:002017-10-12T16:15:39.983-07:00October Workday CANCELLED for air quality<div>
Our Rec and Park staff have made the decision to cancel the Panhandle workday on Saturday, Oct 14 due to the poor air quality. This decision is in keeping with a number of other outdoor activities that are being curtailed due to the same reason.<br />
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Check <a href="https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=317" target="_blank">AirNow</a> for information about Air Quality.<br />
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Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-68270707808899018632017-09-25T12:00:00.001-07:002017-09-25T12:00:32.130-07:00Panhandle bike path re-striped, ladder crosswalk striping added<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The center stripe of the Panhandle bike path has been repainted for the first time in years. Along with the repainted yellow center line, the city has added ladder crosswalk striping at all of the locations where pathways cross the bike path. <br />
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The striping is another facet of Rec & Park's <a href="http://sfrecpark.org/project/panhandle-pedestrian-safety-improvement-project/" target="_blank">Panhandle Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project</a>, which began late in 2016 and was put on hold during our wet winter. The prominent center stripe will make it more apparent that the north side pathway is intended for bike travel, and with the south pathway recently resurfaced, there's hope that a greater portion of pedestrian traffic will use the south path. The new crosswalks remind people on bikes to be alert to anyone who may step across their path.Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-87532733395548661802017-09-09T17:25:00.000-07:002017-09-09T17:25:05.978-07:00September Workday at the PanhandleAt today's workday, volunteers focused on some care for two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_robusta" target="_blank">Queensland Kauri</a> trees, which <a href="http://panhandlepark.blogspot.com/2013/02/panhandle-tree-plantings-begin.html" target="_blank">were planted about four years ago</a> and have been slowly maturing (close to a more mature specimen). We removed some protective wire mesh that had been wrapped around the trees, and propped them against the wind by (carefully) installing two new posts.<br />
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Meanwhile, other volunteers removed dead stalks of the nearby cabbage tree (<i>cordyline australis)</i>, a monster of a specimen. Families from the San Francisco Day School were also out with us today and raked up mountains of eucalyptus leaves near the playground. Dale Danleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15431921274687093617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827667340978889670.post-11409119945013114102017-08-30T16:45:00.001-07:002017-08-30T16:45:15.028-07:00Summer bloom at the park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The planting near the Panhandle bulletin board - aka The Mound - has a great bloom this summer from a plant called <a href="http://calscape.org/Gambelia-speciosa-(Island-Snapdragon)" target="_blank">Island snapdragon</a> (previously <i>Galvezia speciosa</i>, now <i>Gambelia speciosa</i>, native to California's Channel Island).</div>
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