City of Worcester to Celebrate Success of Park Stewards Program
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
The celebration will kick off at noon at Castle Park in Worcester. The Park Stewards program provides a five-week summer employment opportunity for youth ages 16-21.
This summer, 30 youth maintenance workers were hired to perform various duties in maintaining and improving the city's public parks. Youth workers performed work at Castle Park, Cookson Park, Green Hill Park, Newton Hill, University Park, Boynton Park, Cascades Park, Columbus Park, Hadwen Arboretum, Beaver Brook Park, Salisbury Park, and Institute Park.
The Park Stewards responsiblities include maintaining and grooming trails, collecting litter, painting benches and tables, removing invasive species and overgrowth, cleaning walkways, paths, and playgrounds, installing signage, and helping to install a 12-station outdoor fitness circuit.
The program is sponsored by Massport and the City of Worcester, which contributed $24,840 and $50,000, respectively.
The youth workers are overseen by Rick Miller, president of the Friends of Newton Hill, and Dania Flores, Director of Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center, as well as on site youth maintenance supervisors.
The Park Stewards program was created in 2012 as an expansion of the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center’s “Around the Corner” summer youth jobs program, which successfully ran for six years at Newton Hill.
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