Little Mountain Park
Mount Vernon Trail Builders
Join Us for Bridge Repairs on the La-Z-Boy Trail

Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? Help us repair the bridges along the La-Z-Boy trail before winter sets in.

Join Us for Bridge Repairs on the La-Z-Boy Trail
Peter Wheeler
MVPF Fall Newsletter
MVPF Fall Newsletter
Little Mountain Park
Mount Vernon Trail Builders
Join Us for Trail Building at Little Mountain ...

Are you ready to make a difference at Little Mountain Park? The Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is looking for volunteers to help build a new trail that will connect the restrooms at the main parking lot to the central multi-use trail system.

Join Us for Trail Building at Little Mountain Park
Danny Pickering
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation's 2020 Vision

As I write this blog post for the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation, my last as president of this fine organization, I feel the need to recap, reflect and look ahead.

Mount Vernon Parks Foundation's 2020 Vision
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation
Why Support MVPF? Here's What's In It For You…

Mount Vernon Parks Foundation is committed to shining a light on our parks, helping to enhance, maintain and grow an already impressive line-up of community parks. Now's your opportunity to support the parks you love by joining us for our 2019 Trail-A-Thon fundraiser.  And if you're wondering why support MVPF, here’s just some of what we've accomplished in the past year with the donations and volunteer support our community entrusted to us…

Why Support MVPF? Here's What's In It For You…

Little Mountain Nature Trail Is Open!

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The Nature Trail is done and we could not be more pleased. Friday and Saturday we got back to our excellent volunteer turnouts. We finished the capping of the trail with an hour of daylight left. We knew it would be close, but this was amazing. The session was extraordinary in a number of ways:

· On Friday afternoon the Mayor's office sent us thirteen volunteers.

· The "A Team" (our Seattle volunteers) showed up in force and, as always, they were amazing.

· We set a two day material moving record with over thirty yards of gravel.

· And Mayor Boudreau came out on Saturday to see how it was going. That was awesome.

So we finished up as usual with great meals and adult beverages at the Porterhouse. Thank you volunteers, donors, supporters, followers and the City of Mount Vernon for everything you did. Now we hope you'll join us Friday Sept. 28th for the festivities.

And a special thanks to Steve, our weekend guy at Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation. Saturday afternoon we determined we were going to be short on gravel to finish the project and he got us a load on short notice. That's resourcefulness!

Help Out With Finishing The Nature Trail & Bridge

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Good news, we see the finish line on this project. The bridge is done, we just have some rock walls to finish and crushed rock to spread. With large volunteer turnouts both Friday and Saturday we'll finish it just in time for the ribbon cutting celebration on September 28th.

We are starting at 9:00AM both days and lunch will be provided for you.

Everyone is invited to our ribbon cutting celebration on September 28th. Please RSVP to the Mount Vernon Parks Foundation. Afterwards some people plan to hike, run, or ride. Then at 6:00 pm downtown there will be an all ages after party where we'll enjoy trail building photos, appetizers, beverages and dessert. And most importantly we'll be discussing our next project.

We hope to see many of you this coming weekend and at the festivities!

Trail Builders Needed This Weekend

Photo by Terry Afdem

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We need your help this weekend. It is going to be nip and tuck to meet our schedule. While the bridge is assembled we will need to have a good turnout on Friday and Saturday to stay on schedule for the September 28th ribbon cutting ceremony with the Mayor.

This year we've been averaging sixteen volunteers. Last session there were only four of us. Jenny Sandbo and the Skagit Valley Food Coop provided an amazing lunch for us. It took a lot of Starbucks Coffee to get us moving afterwards. All joking aside, we need to see more of you this weekend.

As for the ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, September 28th at 3:00 pm we hope you'll join us. After the ribbon cutting we will have an all ages gathering downtown. It will start at 6:00 pm and last about two hours. It will be at The Front Gallery. There will be appetizers and the owner of North Sounding Brewing, Curt Ahrens, will be there with three of their amazing beers. We hope other businesses will want to be involved.

The venue and adult beverages are being donated.

So since we have so much to get done we hope to see many of you this weekend. On Friday we start at 9:00 am, and on Saturday at 10:00 am. Due to a generous donation by Skagit Runners we’ll have lunch both days.