Sylvan Park Day of Caring
On September 19th, NCNA joined United Way in a Day of Caring at our Sylvan Park Project. The NCNA Green Spaces committee wants to give a big thanks to all our neighbors who joined us, to the Young Professionals of Chattanooga (YPC), United Way, and Elder's Ace for your energy and investment in our community.
On September 19th, NCNA joined United Way in a Day of Caring at our Sylvan Park Project. We had over 20 volunteers onsite furthering our neighborhood green space initiative.
Day of Caring at Sylvan Park Bird Sanctuary, Sept. 19th
The group filled up 9 large trash bags with garbage, pulled countless invasives like english ivy and privet plants, and collectively set the stage for the new trail connectivity work in the near future.
The NCNA Green Spaces committee wants to give a big thanks to all our neighbors who joined us, to the Young Professionals of Chattanooga (YPC), United Way, and Elder's Ace for your energy and investment in our community.
Thanks to the volunteers who removed invasive privet!
Trailbuilder, Barry Smith, and his team will be in Sylvan Park this fall adding a new entrance, as well as a trail that will connect the park up to Colville Street. We are excited because the path will provide a valuable connection to Forest Avenue for neighbors near Sylvan who don’t have any sidewalks, as well as a way for everyone to enjoy the bird sanctuary and beautiful reclaimed green spaces.
Also, using the funds that we raised through our campaign, we have ordered benches, a picnic table and waste receptacles that the Chattanooga Parks Department will install soon. After everything has been installed, we will add new signage to the park!
Stay tuned for our next work day at Sylvan Park and other ways to get involved in our neighborhood green spaces!
Great to see our NCNA members and leaders at Sylvan Park, also!
And thanks again to all of the Sylvan Park Green Space Initiative Sponsors: the Wallace and Campbell families, the Wright family, the Wright Payne family, the Hunter family, the North Shore Merchants Collective, Sally and Andy Michaud, the Grassy Patch Crew, the Taylor family, and the Poole family.
Treasure Found During Trash Pickup!
Family treasure returned after neighborhood trash pick up day.
At our neighborhood clean up day, a neighbor came across this old cast iron mailbox sign that had a name and address for a home in Red Bank. The neighbor brought the sign home, cleaned it up and set out to look for its owner.
Cast iron mailbox sign found in the Sylvan Park Bird Sanctuary!
Turns out the family still lives at the home, and he was able to return the sign to the son who hadn’t seen the sign since he was a little boy. The son now has the mailbox sign displayed in his home, and his sisters have been equally overjoyed to be reunited with the bit of family history.
We loved the story of the trash collection turning up a treasure! Makes us wonder what other glimpses of Chattanooga’s history we will uncover as we continue to reclaim the space at Sylvan Park.