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From Diane K.
Friends of Overington Park, FOOP, will have their next meeting on Tuesday March 1st, from 7 to 8pm, at the CORA center, Orthodox and Adams Ave. We will be talking about PHS tree planting, and the Mayor’s clean up on April 2nd, where America the Beautiful will be joining with us to plant trees and make our garden beds ready for planting. Please come out and help us plan for upcoming events in the park. Hope to see you there!
The Friends of Overington Park invited our Frankford community to sing Christmas carols in the park on Friday night. Mother Nature cooperated with a proper winter chill and everyone was bundled up. There were candy canes, cookies and cheerful renditions of popular songs such as “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Up on the Roof Top” to name but a few. Songsheets were provided to help the carolers. I have to say the joyful sounds encouraged even the shyest of singers. It was a festive evening for all who attended! Thank you to all those who shared their Christmas spirit! There’s only one more week to go!!!!!
You are invited to come out to Overington Park (Leiper St. at Orthodox St.) tonight for some old fashioned Christmas caroling from 7 to 8 PM. It’s something we have not seen in a long time. Now if we could just get somebody to make hot cider, what could be more perfect. Hot chocolate? Well you can go to Wawa for that.
See you tonight and you can get a spot on the video.
Diane Kunze reports on the bulb planting on Saturday November 13th:
We had some volunteers come and work like crazy, because they had seen our plea for help on your sight. We planted 1000 bulbs in the park! It should be wonderful come spring. Thanks to all our volunteers who came out, very last minute, and got the job done. Overington Park will look like a mini Longwood Gardens from Feb thru April. We planted bulbs in large groups around flower beds and a 50 foot run, between two beds, down Orthodox Street. The bulbs came to us from Longwood Garden, via PHS (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society). They were the biggest bulbs I’ve ever seen. The display should be spectacular! Keep an eye out this spring for the best daffodil show in Philadelphia right here in Frankford!
This is an email I got this week about the park from Sandi Gammon:
Hello, I was wondering if you could get me in touch with the “Friends of Overington Park” that are often mentioned on your website. My great-
grandmother was Poppy Overington and she grew up on that property – they even had her wedding reception at the house there in 1924! My parents and grandparents took me out to the park about ten years ago and I remember being sad to see the shape it was in. I wanted to thank the people who help to keep it looking nice these days. Not only are they improving their community but they are unknowingly doing a great service to my family’s memory. I am so happy that people are enjoying the park and that it is cared for.
It’s nice to know others have seen the showplace this park is becoming.
