{"id":237,"date":"2011-11-04T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:26:17","slug":"saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday: When You Love Your Park, You Love Your Watershed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center caption\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/vernon_blog.jfif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tookany\/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On <strong>Saturday, November 5<\/strong>, volunteers all around Philadelphia will gather to clean and green their local parks (find your nearest park <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org\/phlgreen\/LoveDay2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). When you participate in this weekend&rsquo;s Love Your Park day, you&#8217;re also helping out your watershed by clearing debris and litter that might otherwise end up in a storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>And at Vernon Park in Germantown, where the <a href=\"http:\/\/ttfwatershed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tookany\/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership<\/a> recently led an effort to install a rain garden (volunteers preparing the ground are pictured above), the clean-up effort will be joined by Mayor Michael Nutter, Parks &amp; Recreation Commissioner Michael DiBerardinis and PWD Commissioner Howard Neukrug.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Park is at 5818 Germantown Ave., and the event will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about rain gardens <a href=\"http:\/\/phillywatersheds.org\/whats_in_it_for_you\/residents\/rain-gardens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> or download the Vernon Park rain garden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillywatersheds.org\/doc\/Vernon_RaingardenFlyer.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brochure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, November 5, volunteers all around Philadelphia will gather to clean and green their local parks (find your nearest park here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,39,57,513],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-event","tag-free","tag-love-your-park","tag-tookany-tacony-frankford-watershed-partnership","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Saturday: When You Love Your Park, You Love Your Watershed","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Uncategorized","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["event","free","love your park","tookany-tacony frankford watershed partnership"],"dateCreated":"2011-11-04T13:28:00Z","datePublished":"2011-11-04T13:28:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-12T15:26:17Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Saturday: When You Love Your Park, You Love Your Watershed\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/saturday-when-you-love-your-park-you-love-your-watershed\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Uncategorized\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"event\",\"free\",\"love your park\",\"tookany-tacony frankford watershed partnership\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-11-04T13:28:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-04T13:28:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-12T15:26:17Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}