Friends of Nelson Park

Near the center of Nelson Park stands a large and once beautiful gazebo.  Unfortunately, over the years this structure has deteriorated and is in need of repair.  Please help Friends of Nelson Park in our continued efforts to repair Nelson Park.  For more information email us from our “contact us” page.

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Thanks to the support of many individual volunteers, organizations and the City of Salem Nelson Park’s new playground arrived in the Fall of 2011.

Thank you to everyone involved in the continuing efforts to improve and revitalize Nelson Park!

As of April 25th 2011, Friends of Nelson Park has raised $88,525!  There has been an astounding $12,905 raised from your private donations and the rest from grants awarded through various organizations.

Even with the incredible amount raised so far we still need an additional $10,000 to complete our playground project.  Please help us make one final push to hit our goal!  Go to our donate now! page to see details on how to donate.

In the next few weeks a flyer will be sent to all the surrounding neighborhoods of Nelson Park to help raise awareness of the parks needs.  This flyer will help us increase support and gain valuable donations. 

You can view the flyer at the following link.  Please send this to anyone you think would like to help renovate Nelson Park.

http://www.friendsofnelsonpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Flyer-Final.pdf

On Saturday, October 24th over 20 neighborhood volunteers gathered to help clean up Nelson Park.  Activity centered on the playground area where men, women and children attacked the weeds and spread yards and yards of bark dust provided by the City of Salem.  In just three hours it looked like a totally different place.  Weeds and tall grass were also removed from the base of trees and along the edge of the street and piles of leaves were left for city crews to pick up on Monday.

“This is just the first of many work parties.  We wanted to spruce the place up a bit before the winter weather set in.  Come spring, we’re going to expand our efforts to other areas of the park,” said one of members of the Friends of Nelson Park Steering Committee.  “We want to thank everybody who came out to help, it was truly a community effort.  We also want to thank Roth’s for the coffee and donuts they donated and the City of Salem for the bark dust and letting us borrow their wheel barrows, weed whackers and other equipment.”

Thanks again to everyone who came out to help on Saturday.  Special thanks to John Kleeman with the Public Works Department with the City of Salem who gave up part of his Saturday to drop-off an pick up the city tools and equipment – and to Roth’s for the coffee and donuts.