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9th Annual PFPP Membership Meeting POSTPONED

3/22/2020

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DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION, OUR ANNUAL MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE STAY HOME AND SAFE.

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Learn about our accomplishments from the past year, and the exciting updates on our plans for the future in the park!


AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Hear updates on current park improvement projects: Lake Frances Revitalization and more!
  • Hear more about upcoming events:
    Palmer Park Art Fair, Log Cabin Day, Annual Fundraiser & Silent Auction,
    and the PGA Tour returning to neighboring Detroit Golf Club in May
  • Recreational Programming for 2020 season
  • Continuation of the “rent-a-bed” program at our Urban Educational Garden
  • PFPP Board update on completed projects, finances & future goals/planning
  • Nominations/Election of new board members
  • First 75 members present or those attending that contribute $25 to
    People for Palmer Park will get a City-grown plant to take home

We are seeking board of director candidates for election at this meeting. Specific areas of expertise we are looking to fill include but are not limited to: fundraising, preservation, legal skills, and membership. If you would like to get more involved as a member of the Board (you must be a current PFPP member), you can find more information by going to our member page where there is a link to our membership application. 

For a list of current Board and Committee members, visit our Board/Committees page.

Help us spread the word! 

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Spooky Storytime back for some Halloween fun in Palmer Park Garden 10/21

10/2/2018

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 - 4-5pm at the Palmer Park Urban Garden
We will move inside the Community House if it's too cold or raining.

Halloween is upon us and all families are invited to Palmer Park for this season's Storytime!

Enjoy the autumn park scenery and bring the kids to enjoy interactive stories read aloud and performed around the theme of SPOOKY STORIES.

Meet near the Palmer Park gardens where Merrill Plaisance and Pontchartrain split near the splash park lot. Bring your own blankets or chairs to sit on. 
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SPRING Story Time in Palmer Park

4/21/2015

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PicturePhoto by Barbara Barefield.
Beginning Sunday, 4/26/2015, 4-5pm

Families are invited to Palmer Park for interactive stories read aloud and performed along the theme of TRANSFORMATION. Gather by the Palmer Park vegetable garden beds off of Merrill Plaisance near the splash park lot. Bring your own blankets or chairs to sit on. Enjoy the long-awaited presence of spring in our beautiful park!

Information about this event also on our Storytime Facebook event page.

Check out Palmer Park's very own Little Free Library while you're there! It's near the Splash Park and Playground. Bring a book to share, and take a book home!

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Palmer Park Gets a Little Free Library

12/3/2014

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PictureThis is the Little Free Library in Rosedale Park. Our Palmer Park LFL is very similar.
Little Free Libraries -- the “take a book, leave a book” phenomenon of small boxes filled with free books has donated a Little Free Library to Palmer Park. It is located near the Splash Park and Playground, in front of the old pool house and next to the Splash Park lot. Visit and take a book (there are books for kids and adults) and leave a book, and then read, read, read!

The founder of the movement, Todd Bol, was in Detroit in the beginning of November 2014, and gave the city 20 little libraries to kick off the Detroit effort, lead by Kim Kozlowski, education writer for the Detroit News.

New Little Free Libraries were also planted in the historic Detroit neighborhoods of North Rosedale Park, Corktown, Palmer Woods, Boston Edison, Virginia Park, Banglatown and Southwest Detroit. 

They planted libraries at a worship house, nonprofit, innovative project and small business including Westminster Church, Detroit Loves You Airbnb, Write A House, Ruth Ellis Drop In Center, 2051 Rosa Parks and Murphy Play Lot.

The libraries are also being planted in several Detroit parks including Butler, Clark, Weiss, Hawthorne, Bennett, LaSalle Ford, Lafayette Central, Wilson and Edmore-Marbud… and our own Palmer Park!

Currently, there are about 22,000 Little Free Libraries around the world, in places as far flung as Antarctica and deserted islands in Canada. But there are only a handful in Detroit … but with the support of the community that may change. Kozlowski is hoping to make  Detroit: The Little Free Library Capital of the World! 


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