Thanks to the Franklin Park Coalition Boston Marathon runners, we are able to support an Americorps member this year who will increase the number of young people who come to the park for service and play.
The staff are happy to welcome Allison Postlethwait, also a runner and volleyball player, who is originally from Massachusetts, but went to college at Virginia Tech, majoring in communications. Within a few days of starting, Allison worked with twelve 5th graders from the nearby Neighborhood School clearing invasive buckthorn trees. Next week 25 8th graders will spend the day in the park, planting daffodil bulbs, saving oak trees from prickly
catbrier and as always, pulling buckthorn and picking up litter. Then they'll hike through the Wilderness, picnic, and celebrate with a giant kickball game before heading back to school.
Allison looks great in her FPC sweatshirt and is excited to be spending beautiful fall
days in the park.
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