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Park Clean-up Tomorrow

August 10th, 2010

Dolores Park Works will be leading a clean-up tomorrow, Wednesday, 3 pm. Come join your neighbors and friends, Rebecca Prozan, candidate for district 8 supervisor and volunteers from GirlSource. We are meeting at our newly painted tool locker, behind the tennis courts (18th st. and Dolores) Stop by, say hi or pitch in for an hour or two. Please help keep our park clean.


“Since 1998, GirlSource has been providing meaningful employment and leadership opportunities for low-income, high-school-age girls in San Francisco. Our paid job program offers technology training, supplemented by individual guidance to help girls finish high school, go on to college, and launch their careers.”

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Pride in the City

June 28th, 2010

I love this city. San Francisco is all about expressing one’s self, celebrating who you are, what you stand for, where you come from, and where you are going.  It’s why I moved here 10 years ago.

Dolores Park is THE place where all of this expression, freedom, individuality etc culminates into a beautiful setting – physically, spiritually, emotionally, and experientially.

Party Leftovers (MOOP)

I walked the park on Sunday with RPD and I’m so sad to say that the park is trashed. Everywhere, trash. It’s hard to see from a distance, but if you just look down, you’ll see all the cigarette butts, bottle caps, feathers, glitter, cups, ice cream sticks, napkins, lighters, tagging, broken glass, cans, orange peels, straws, baggies, bottles…

As an organization, we are acting as an intermediary between the city, RPD, NIMBYS and park goers to preserve the ability to have fun in Dolores Park and express yourself in any way you want. So I beg you, could we, as citizens of this great city, please take more pride in our park and how we leave it when we are done celebrating each magical moment?

Drink, smoke, get high, sleep, picnic, sell your beer/food/ice cream, whatever, but please please please – LEAVE NO TRACE. Take your stuff home with you when you leave. Pretty please with a Maker’s Mark infused cherry on top?

AND join us for clean ups of the “fun” people leave behind for others on July 5, 11, 25 and August 8.

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Out of the Parks and Into the Street

June 18th, 2010

With extended hours and more street then last year (the streets are closed an hour longer and all of Harrison Street is closed from 17th to 26th),  this Sunday Streets, the Mission promises to be well worth the fuss. The streets are posted and cars parked along the route will be towed beginning at midnight Saturday.  Susan King and her team have put together a full program.  There is music at the pedal powered stage on 24th and Shotwell, and  kid activities at the “main hub” in Garfield Square, but the programing and activities will be spread out all along the route. Bike, skate, workout and dance in the street.

The Dolores Park Works team will be out near 19th Street  and Dolores with an information table, noon to 2pm. Come on out and say hi or  better yet, volunteer to help out.

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Friends to Rock Playground

June 18th, 2010

Preschool favs and world-class rockers The Sippy Cups are headlining a benefit concert for the Friends of Dolores Park Playground this Saturday, June 19 at 4 pm.  This is going to be an all in event and caps off a three month campaign for the last of the $3.5 million the Friends need to raise for the new playground. Please join your Dolores Parks Works team and neighbors as we help save this important piece of our park. Refreshments are donated by Dolores Park Cafe and Whole Foods.

The Friends of Dolores Park Playground say that after raising $3.25 million from City funds, 2008 Park Bond money, donations from individuals, private foundations, grants, and support from local businesses, they are still short, $287 thousand.

For the most part all is well, a grand multi-section play-area totally up to modern safety standards, filled with lots of natural plants and materials is on track and funded. However, several amenities, furnishings and art work will not be installed if the Friends can not raise these funds. They are reaching out to us, Dolores Park supporters, with the Friend’s of Dolores Park first public fundraising drive. Please Give! They will also continue to reach out to foundations and influential members of the community as well.

I spy with my little eye.

The Friends say, that because Dolores Park and playground are so heavily used, the demolition and repair of the drainage issues, the desire to use sustainable materials, and the need for the play structures to withstand upwards of 40 years of heavy use make it an extremely expensive renovation. We have from now until June 30th to reach this goal.

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The porta-potties are coming!

May 17th, 2010
Aren’t they sexy!

We did it! RPD has agreed to provide porta-potties at Dolores Park for the summer! No more ridiculously long line requiring you to hold it till it hurts — or peeing under the bridge or in a driveway, though I’m sure none of you have ever done those unseemly things.

On non-event weekends (event producers are required to provide portable toilets), RPD will provide five portable toilets and a hand washing station.

We’re pushing for eight toilets, but we’re happy with these for the moment. The toilets will be placed along Dolores Street between 18th and 20th.

We’d like to thank those of you that signed our petition. We couldn’t have done it without you. We’d also like to give a big shout out to Supervisor Dufty and Bob Palacio with RPD for hearing our cry and finding money in the budget to give us a respectable place to relieve ourselves in a timely manner.

If you're happy, donate!

Now, for the love of all this is holy, please please please keep ‘em clean and use them – not driveways, park trees or under the bridge. If the porta-potties aren’t used or respected, they will be taken away. If there are any issues with them, please let us know.

Now, everyone stand as we do the i-have-to-pee-but-i-don’t-have-to-wait-forever happy dance.

Weekends when they will be present: May 29, 20, 31; June 5, 6; July 10, 11, 17, 18, 31; August 1, 14, 15, 21, 22; September 11, 12, 25, 26; and October 9, 10, 16, 17.

Because you may not know it unless we told you, this outcome is a result of advocacy work done by a new organization with the singular mission of improving and preserving the (tangible and intangible) beauty of Dolores Park — Dolores Park Works.

If you are happy with this result, please consider making a donation. How much? Well, here’s an equation to help: (the $ amount you would be willing to pay to have a place to pee and not wait in line forever) X (the number of times you pee each time to go to the park) x (number of times you go to the park each year) = $XX (or whatever you feel like giving).

Also, get involved! We’re doing a clean up of the park this Sunday. It’s fun. There’s food. You feel good. The park looks great. We also need volunteers to help with general organizational needs: marketing, communications, tech support, website development and maintenance, volunteer recruitment, clean ups, advocacy. If you’re interested, email us at volunteer at doloresparkworks dot org.

Dolores Park Works, but it doesn’t work without you.

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