IF YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING, COME REGISTER SUNDAY AT THORNE STREET PARK AND SEE WHERE YOU CAN HELP! APRIL 26TH, 11:30AM
I LOVE My Park Day is a statewide event that brings together local communities to help improve and enhance their parks. New Yorkers love their parks, as demonstrated by the thousands of volunteers who are willing to help maintain the beauty of New York’s treasured state parks and historic sites. Friends groups and volunteers are more important than ever to keep parks beautiful, clean, and welcoming for all to visit and enjoy.
Volunteers from across the state participate in cleanup, improvement, and beautification events at New York State parks and historic sites each year.
PTNY, in collaboration with OPRHP, and the NYS DEC, coordinates the event on the statewide level, providing outreach, promotion, technical assistance and a how-to organizer’s kit for Friends groups to use for their individual events. Friends groups and park staff oversee cleanup, improvement and beautification projects and work with volunteers.
Goal
Bring Horseheads residents together to improve and enhance Horseheads Parks: Engaging the local community and fostering a spirit of collaboration and pride in our beautiful community.
Day of Check-In
- Please come to Sullivan Park (Thorne Street Park) for our Welcome Festivities and send off.
- Check in begins at 11:30AM on day of event at our Main Pavilion.
Linear Park
- Park Clean Up
- Volunteers Needed: 15-20 Participants
- Skill Level: Beginner-friendly, Ideal for younger volunteers
- Required Tools: Rakes and work gloves ( please bring your own)
- Project Details: Volunteers will assist with cleaning up leaves and litter along the stretch from Center Street to East Main Street, helping to maintain a clean and welcoming community environment.
- Painting Message Board
- Painting: Message Board
- Volunteers Needed: 6 - 10 participants
- Skill Level: This project requires volunteers 14 years and older with prior painting experience.
- Required Attire: Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing for painting.
- Project Details: Participants should be comfortable working on scaffolding and handling painting tasks to help restore and enhance the pavilions at this park.
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Maple Grove (Cemetery Clean Up)
- Volunteers Needed: 5–10 participants per section x 12 sections
- Skill Level: Beginner-friendly – Ideal for younger volunteers
- Required Tools: Rakes and work gloves (please bring your own)
- Project Description: Volunteers will assist with cleaning up leaves, sticks and litter within our Maple Grove Cemetery.
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Memorial Park
- Volunteers Needed: 5 participants
- Skill Level: Beginner-friendly – Ideal for younger volunteers
- Required Tools: Rakes and work gloves (please bring your own)
- Project Description: Volunteers will assist with cleaning up leaves, sticks, litter, monument clean up as well as cleaning/mulching flower beds.
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Teal Park
- Park Clean Up and
- Volunteers Needed: 15 - 20 participants
- Skill Level: Beginner-friendly – Ideal for younger volunteers
- Required Tools: Rakes and work gloves (please bring your own if possible)
- Project Description: Volunteers will assist with cleaning up leaves, sticks, litter, and painting bathroom fence/band stand and mulching around park.
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Sullivan Park (Thorne Street Park)
- Park Clean Up
- Volunteers Needed: 15 - 20 participants
- Skill Level: Beginner-friendly – Ideal for younger volunteers
- Required Tools: Rakes and work gloves (please bring your own)
- Project Description: Volunteers will assist with cleaning up leaves, sticks, and litter around the park.
- Painting: Pavilions, Picnic Tables, and Flower Planters
- Volunteers Needed: 10 - 15 participants
- Skill Level: This project requires volunteers 14 years and older with prior painting experience.
- Required Attire: Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing for painting.
- Project Details: Participants will be painting picnic tables, planter beds, pavilions, and other items around park.
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Gardner Road Park
- Painting: Bridge
- Volunteers Needed: 6 - 10 participants
- Skill Level: This project requires volunteers 14 years and older with prior painting experience.
- Required Attire: Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing for painting.
- Project Details: Participants will be working on painting the bridge connecting the upper and lower fields.
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