Project EverGreen, Mentor, Ohio, along with the Ohio Landscape Association and over 30 local professional landscaping volunteers performed a $25,000 project renovating a 32,000-square-foot Cleveland park.
The Helen Simpson Park in Cleveland’s Buckeye neighborhood underwent a landscape makeover, including the cleaning up of trees, removing old turf, deep edging the planting beds, adding new soil and mulch, installing new greenery, adding turf nutrition and weed management applications and creating new entryways to the park.
The park is named after Helen Simpson, a neighborhood resident and pioneer in Cleveland television. She was a manager of advertising, promotion and publicity at a local NBC affiliate, who was murdered in 1972 on her way home from work. The case has never been solved.
“Helen Simpson Park is vital to this highly populated community, but over the years it had fallen into disarray,” says Cindy Code, executive director of Project EverGreen. “With the expertise and commitment of our dedicated volunteers, the park’s trees, plants, and grass received much needed pruning and nutrition to enhance their health and vitality. The result is a vibrant, safe park that serves as the lungs of the city.”
The renovation was completed through Project EverGreen’s GreenCare for Communities Initiative. Since 2008, Project EverGreen and its partners have renovated community parks and public green spaces totaling more than 200 million square feet of living green space.
“We are thrilled to see these improvements at our Helen Simpson Park,” says Deborah Gray, councilwoman of Cleveland’s Ward 4. “We’re so appreciative of the support shown to this neighborhood and the tremendous work completed to restore this beautiful park.”
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