Volunteer Work Day

Neighborhood Parks Volunteer Work Day

The Neighborhood Parks Volunteer Work Day started in October 2007 as a way to encourage pride and participation in caring for your local neighborhood parks and to educate youth about environmental stewardship.  Each quarter, a different project is chosen for neighbors to turn out and perform volunteer activities.  Activities may include: mulching playgrounds, education about litter prevention, naming of trees, plants, insects, or birds; constructing trashcan stands; painting; or even planting flowers or trees.  These activities are then logged along with the City’s many other yearly beautification and volunteer events with our grant applications through Keep Texas Beautiful.

Our work day then is not just a litter pick-up, recycling, or beautification event, but an overall effort to clean, maintain, create, and improve our parks using residents as the driving force.  Along the way, we hope you will learn and spread the word about taking care of the environment and more specifically, that piece of nature that is closest to you:  your neighborhood park and green space.

Events will be held quarterly.  Along with residents, the City may provide volunteers from boards and commissions such as Keep Lake Jackson Beautiful, or the Youth Advisory Commission, as well as occasionally providing a paid employee at each event for safety, security, and supplies or heavy equipment work.

Volunteers of all ages are needed for weeding, painting, trimming, cleaning or mulching of playgrounds, insect and/or bird identification, planting and other potential activities.
For more information please call Bryce Carleton at the Lake Jackson Parks Department at (979) 297-0721 or email Bryce Carleton.
Volunteer Skills

No special skills are needed, but wear sturdy shoes, bring sun-tan lotion, hand tools, ice, and water if you want. Volunteer in 2 hr or 4 hr shifts.

Workday Schedule
1st Saturday of February; April Spring Cleanup Day, 1st Saturday of August, and 1st Saturday of November
February:    Planting Program.  We will be planting as a part of our annual beautification efforts.  If you like working
with trees, roses, or just like the outdoors, come and join us!

April:  Our contribution to the City of Lake Jackson’s Spring Cleanup.  Special litter patrol, planting, or other beautification project just for Parks!   August:  Our playground workday, where we pick a playground at random and make improvements, such as paint, mulch, remove graffiti, or more!

November:  Our fall program getting ready for the lighting of town for the Festival of Lights.  Come out and help us set up Christmas trees, decorate, and string lights!