| Volunteers sought for Shasta Park
You could play a role in maximizing tax dollars spent at Shasta Park by volunteering to help install new playground equipment. Manteca Parks and Recreation Department will employ the Volunteers Improving Park Playgrounds (VIPP) program to install the playground equipment so that upwards of $20,000 can be saved that will in turn be spent on other park improvements at Shasta. The city has finished a $110,373 project conducted by Grover Landscaping Services to install concrete sidewalks, play curbs, park furniture, and to modify the irrigation system at Shasta Park. Grover Landscaping also removed what was left of the old playground. Shasta Park will mark the fourth time VIPP has been used to improve playgrounds. Other VIPP projects have taken place at Chadwick Square, Woodward, and Graystone parks.
Lecture Series Celebrates Artistry of Mills College Landscape
From Golden Gate Park and the Presidio of San Francisco to the UC Berkeley and Stanford University campuses to Lake Merritt, spectacular and expansive designed landscapes abound in the Bay Area. One often overlooked landscape jewel lies in southeast Oakland; the bucolic, wooded, campus of the private Mills College. What would Mills be without its landscape—the main avenue with its double alley of plane trees, another drive lined with towering, more-than-century old, blue-gum eucalyptus, lawns and copses, gardens and hillsides, streams and ponds? Clear these away, and it might be just another anywhere campus. It's also a place where nature imbued the educational and social culture, from annual picnics on the grounds to the traditional “senior lantern procession," to the presidential cottage nestled at the edge of a meadow.
Display of flora to greet airport visitors
A project by the Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) will ensure that visitors to the Island are greeted by a display of indigenous Caymanian flora. The CIAA has teamed up with Dr Mat Cottam of the Cayman Islands Department of Environment (DoE) to landscape the new terminal, which is part of the Owen Roberts International Airport expansion project, using a range of hardy trees and shrubs from the Cayman Collection a hand-picked selection of local flora, specially chosen for its local significance and grown on island from seed. The Cayman Collection is being grown at the Native Tree Nursery, which is currently under development at the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Botanic Park. Established as part of an ongoing environmental project called the Darwin Initiative, the nursery is run by a partnership team from DoE, the QEII Botanic Park, the Shade Brigade and Cayman Nature.
Let's honour Griffin's legacy, and Sulman's too
THE ALBERT Hall precinct and Draft Amendment 53 continue to raise debate, in spite of the NCA's decision to exclude an eight-storey building for which it should be commended. Contentious matters include the introduction of four-storey buildings, not least the one at the rear (western side) of the Albert Hall, perceived loss of landscape space, and road changes. The NCA projects that the changes are in line with Walter Burley Griffin's general ideas for the development of the area. Opponents dispute the proposals on the grounds that they will ruin the quality and character of the area. Much angst has focused on the iconic Albert Hall and its tranquil, treed setting which has significant intangible values for many Canberrans. It is not just the building that is significant: its landscape setting is an important and cherished part of its authenticity and integrity as a heritage building.
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