Come join us! Saturday at public works. We’ll be planting all over town!
Also pictured new elm trees at public works.
Tag: City of Wayzata Volunteer Program
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From the City of Wayzata’s weekly update:
“The City of Wayzata is seeking volunteers for the annual flower planting day—Dig It Day on the morning of Saturday, May 21. Volunteers will meet at Wayzata Public Works at 8:30 a.m. to get their assignments and then at 9 a.m. everyone will disperse to the city gardens to plant all the vibrant and colorful flowers we all enjoy all summer long in Wayzata. To sign up to volunteer, contact Pat Broyles by calling 612- 270-3008 or email pbroyles@counselorrealty.com. Bring your kids, friends and family! No gardening experience needed!”
Dig it Day Volunteers. Submitted image. 
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Twenty six members of the Wayzata Football team and Head Coach Brad Anderson joined the Wayzata Volunteers to pull buckthorn on Saturday, May 14th. The effort was coordinated with the Merrily Borg Babcock and the City of Wayzata Volunteers in Action. Joel Papa, Bill Berneking, and yours truly also helped to lead the group of young men during the session.
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Dan Gustafson, Bill Berniking, and Joel Papa at the Buckthorn pull. Courtesy Merrily Babcock. -
Image courtesy Merrily Borg Babcock. 
Image courtesy Merrily Borg Babcock. Merrily Borg Babcock posted these images and text on Facebook detailing the recent Garlic Mustard Pull hosted by the City of Wayzata Volunteers:“I know you may be bored to tears w/me promoting our parks but…whatever. Here is another PARK PERK! The volunteers who came out for the GARLIC MUSTARD PULL this morning at the Wayzata’s BIG WOODS. Although our team was small (7), it was exceptional! Thanks for answering the call for help at the last minute-Holly Sandeen Evans and Brianna, Mary Bader, Lynn McCarthy, Johanna McCarthy and Judith Fansler! You’re the best!” -
Wayzata Big Woods. Image courtesy Merrily Borg Babcock. The City of Wayzata is still seeking 20-25 volunteers for the annual garlic mustard pull scheduled for May 7, 2016 in the Wayzata Big Woods. Contact Merrily Borg Babcock at merrily.babcock@gmail.com if you have interest.
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The following speech was presented by Lynn McCarthy to the Wayzata City Council on December 2, 2014:
Mr. Mayor and Council Members –The established volunteer program in our city is relatively new…but the concept of volunteering is age old in this town. So many folks over the years gave… and many folks continue to give… again and again… to the various boards, committees and commissions. For one reason…they care about their city.
But my report tonight covers only the experiences of the City of Wayzata Volunteer Committee volunteers..a unit created under the leadership of Mayor Willcox in 2009.
One would think that after five years, the fervor of the Wayzata garden volunteers would cool down a bit.
But you know, it is just not happening. Even though the economic crisis that spawned the volunteer program has passed …the volunteers want to keep on working. We even had to turn down sponsors for the Adopt a Garden program this year, because we had too many takers. And the Dig-It Day volunteers (young and old) continue to mark the third Saturday in May as a time to get up early, get out the gloves and get to work.
In October the garden folks, under the leadership of Pat Broyles, geared up again with the Parks Department to clean out the flower beds and get them ready for winter. This year we had so many volunteers involved that we were finished with our work and ready to head home by 10:30. A big job accomplished by many hands in less than 2 hours.
The Post Office Pocket Park is going to beautiful next Spring. Remember to watch for it!. Our garden volunteers joined the Parks and Trails volunteers …headed by Merrily Borg Babcock… to spend a cold October morning digging holes, by hand, by auger, by any means available to put 1,000 bulbs into the ground. This job made planting flowers and cleaning up look like a piece of cake.
Again this year the volunteers for the Big Woods Initiative included Keller Williams folks, the Wayzata High School football team and local Scout troops. City volunteers worked with The Retreat, The Trust for Public Land, and the Minnesota Land Trust to plan and execute a 10th year anniversary event.
Next year we will be working on a new project. Our volunteers will be front and center with the Parks Department in executing a new city wide initiative to identify and help eliminate the Emerald Ash Bore before it takes a hold on our community.
I am very pleased to announce that we now have two volunteers doing clerical operations assistance at Public Works and we continue to provide collateral delivery service to rental properties for City Hall.
Some volunteers are supporting the work of the Historical Society by interviewing long time citizens of Wayzata and preserving their stories for the Historical Society Archives.
And then there is the work that the volunteers do for the Boardwalk residence and the work that the Boardwalk residence volunteers do for the community.
As part of the monthly speakers program on-site at the Boardwalk this year, volunteers recruited Major General Robert Shadley, historian Mary Berg, author Mary Lou Carpenter, the Wayzata Symphony Orchestra and various local music groups and health organizations. Volunteers still keep the Book Club up and running.
Boardwalk residents have created their own internal volunteer organization and they take responsibility for mailings for the Wayzata Chamber of Commerce and other community organizations.
Let’s suffice it to say that our City volunteers do a lot. They write grant applications, attend leadership training, participate in monthly committee meetings, and have memberships on community and area senior boards.
In a city of 3600 hundred souls, over 269 volunteers contributed more than 8600 hundred hours in 2014…saving the city one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars in in-kind services.
The 2008 economic downturn was a bump in the road that gave birth to a very viable and vital group of givers who are not slowing down. We are looking forward to another year of giving more and giving back.
My thanks to all the volunteers who operate in our City and my thanks to Bridget Anderson who has been the Council liaison to our committee. And I thank YOU for your time.
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Twenty-nine civic minded community volunteers gathered at the Wayzata Public Works building early morning on Saturday October 18th to participate in Pull It Day, the City of Wayzata’s Volunteer Program to remove annual flowers from City owned flower beds around town. The event is held annually, and mirrors a planting day held by the same group in the spring, in addition to an Adopt a Garden program that runs through the summer.
The Volunteer Program was started in 2009 as budget constraints caused the City of Wayzata to seek new ways to meet staffing requirements. Other arms of the volunteers include staffing for administrative tasks, Big Woods maintenance, and programming for seniors within the community.
“Pull It Day.” Members of the City of Wayzata Volunteer Program gathered outside Public Works for a photograph prior to conducting seasonal maintenance on the municipal flower beds. Photo Dan Gustafson. The group completed the herculean task of removing flowers from City owned flower beds in record time this year, according to Pat Broyles, Co-Chair of the Garden Initiative group. For more information on how to particpate in the Volunteer Program, visit this webpage at the City of Wayzata.
Click any of the photos below to view the 2014 Pull It Day photo gallery by Dan Gustafson.
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