GARDEN GROVE : Students to Kick Off Adopt-a-Park Effort

Fifty scholarship students from Garden Grove High School will kick off the city’s new Adopt-a-Park program Saturday, when they are scheduled to plant and clean at the Atlantis Play Center in Garden Grove Park.

Officials hope that the work party of California Scholarship Federation members will be the first of many efforts by volunteers to help keep the 180 acres in the city’s 21 parks clean and green.

The program, approved by the City Council last month as a way to ease park maintenance costs, calls for individuals, groups, churches, schools, clubs and businesses to adopt a park as a project.

Assistance can come through donation of park maintenance materials; planting flowers, trees and shrubs; removing litter; cleaning park buildings; raking leaves; trimming trees and shrubs; cleaning sidewalks; pulling weeds; removing graffiti; painting park buildings and equipment, and donating cash.

Depending on the amount of time they toil, volunteers may receive an adoption certificate and have their name put on an Adopt-a-Park sign at the park.