December 2013 - Parks & Recreation - 8

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On November 18, Shady Lane Park in
Houston, this year's Parks Build Community project, received a community
garden on its grounds thanks to funding
from UnitedHealthcare. Community
members of the community and UnitedHealthcare volunteers helped create the
urban garden that will provide low-income community members access to
healthier meals for years to come. The
garden consists of six garden beds, a drip
irrigation system, a compost bin, tomato cages and a hose reel. Support from
UnitedHealthcare will also go toward
improvements of five urban gardens at
parks throughout Houston as well as the
Houston Parks and Recreation Department's Afterschool Meal Program.
You can keep tabs on developments at Shady Lane Park by visiting
www.nrpa.org/About-NRPA/
Initiatives/Parks-Build-Community/
Shady-Lane-Park-Revitalization, which
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Aftermath of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma's Veterans Memorial Park

In the June issue, we covered the parks in Moore, Oklahoma, that had been
devastated by the massive tornado that hit the community on May 20 (www.
parksandrecreation.org/2013/June/Restoring-Moore-by-Storm). The article
also included information about the " America is Your Park " campaign (AIYP),
sponsored by Coca-Cola in partnership with NRPA, which awards recreational
grants to parks based on an online voting contest. At press time, Moore's Veterans Memorial Park was the top contender in a contest that ultimately had more
than 12,000 other entrants.
In mid-November, CBS This Morning aired a segment about how residents of
Joplin, Missouri, crowdsourced to help garner contest votes for Moore. Joplin,
which suffered its own tornado almost exactly two years before the Moore storm
hit, knew the significance that a restored park can have on a devastated community (www.parksandrecreation.org/2012/August/Cunningham-Park,-Jop
lin,-Missouri). That city's Cunningham Park won a substantial grant from the
Coca-Cola contest in 2011, and through the combined efforts of the two communities and more than 400,000 votes, Moore's Veterans Memorial Park emerged
as the winner of this year's $100,000 Coca-Cola grant to restore the park in the
wake of the disaster, plus the title of " America's Favorite Park. "
Check out the video at www.cbsnews.com/videos/joplin-mo-helps-re
build-tornado-devastated-moore-okla-park - it's a great reminder of what
partnerships on all levels can accomplish.

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