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Although Mayor Tuerk and Mandy Tolino, Director of Parks, may not realize it, I have been very gentle toward them compared to their predecessors. But, as my hair thins, so does my patience. Parks and Recreation are combined departments. While I have no opinions concerning the recreation programs, I feel strongly about the parks, especially the WPA structures.
As the summer progresses, I will be sharing those feelings here on this blog.
photocredit:Denise Sanchez
Riparian buffers save amphibians,amphibians lives matter. Also mowers pureed those ducklings, and belch particulates let the grass grow for mother Gaea.
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The ducklings are mowed every year because of the Riparian Buffers. Periodically even with the buffers they have to be mowed so the invasives don't take hold. If they kept the banks mowed on the former Allentown traditional park format, the ducks would nest only in those areas not mowed. Years ago before the buffers there were ducklings every year. Last season no ducklings survived on the rose garden side of cedar park. Some ducklings did survive born on the mulhenberg lake island.
DeleteOne must watch taking a tender aged child along the banks to fish as there skin is so soft and ticks see them as easy lunch.
ReplyDeleteBeyond amphibians and beyond ticks, I agree that the creek should be visible and the park planners intended.
ReplyDeleteOut by the fish hatchery at the big lawn twice has been covered by straw grass infused material this year alone to no avail. This stuff has been washed away only to endanger any wildlife that may still inhabit the banks naturally, I myself haven't seen the adolescent blue heron since the first wash out.
ReplyDeleteThis is all costing tax monies as well as native animals there lives because of the wildlife conservancy dereliction hiding the shit that flows into allentowns water intake from outlining developments?
It’s been a BIG downgrade in park maintenance over the last few years. The lack of mowing and the faux riparian buffers are just part of it.
ReplyDeleteWest Park doesn’t seem to get the same attention it used to. You have cars regularly parking on the grass at Percy Ruhe Park (Alton Park) without any enforcement, and then there’s the lack of upkeep at the Field of Dreams type baseball field at Union Terrace (that former Phillie Chase Utley came to open).
Then throw in the lack of any attempt to level out the low spots in the Parkway that pop up after the creeks overflow, and of course the continued neglect of the WPA structures.
I’m not sure what the new Parks Director is doing with her time or what her qualifications are, but these things seem obvious to anyone who’s paying even the slightest bit of attention.
Over on the Recreation side, the city’s youth leagues have largely disappeared after years of neglect, and no turnaround on that front seems likely anytime soon.
Yet I don’t see the Mayor seeming concerned, nor do I hear the subject mentioned by city council members. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that unacceptable.
I do agree there is neglect in our parks system from what it once was. Drive trough Trout creek park , over ground and messy looking , down tress , rotting logs weeds , bike paths unkempt. Baseball feild overgrown.
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