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As part of the master plan project, 21st Century Parks worked with Louisville's award-winning artist and architect, Dan Church, to develop a series of watercolors illustrating key elements of the design. With a goal of allowing stakeholders and donors to better visualize the plan and the way park visitors will use park amenities, we will present several of Dan's watercolors each quarter.
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| — BOB HILL'S FLOYDS FORK JOURNAL |
21st Century Parks is pleased to announce that former Courier Journal columnist Bob Hill has joined our team to tell the stories of Floyds Fork.
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| — NATURAL HISTORY TIDBIT |
» Nature along Floyds Fork: The Special Places Project ... A walk anywhere along Floyds Fork reveals the vocabulary of an exciting natural history: mussell shells, fossils, native plants, and traces of charismatic fauna are all present.
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| — PAST HIGHLIGHTS |
» Profile of Dan Jones ... Watching Dan Jones wander through the parks and wilderness of Eastern Jefferson County it is easy to see how much he loves it there.
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» Persons of the Year ... Top honors for 2006 go to a father-son team that raised millions of dollars and now has boots on the ground leading the massive effort to expand Louisville's parks system.
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Photo by John Nation
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| — HEADLINES |
» Nonprofit of the Year ... On December 9, 21st Century Parks received an Eagle Award of Excellence and was honored as the Nonprofit of the Year by Business First during a gala dinner at the Marriott Downtown.
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» Louisville Metro and 21st Century Parks Forge Innovative Partnership for Land Protection and Park Maintenance ... In the development of The Fork project, 21st Century Parks, Inc and Louisville Metro Government, with input from the public and Metro Council, have forged a unique public/private partnership.
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» Capital Campaign Kicks Off at the Louisville Home of Campaign Co-Chair Sandra Frazier ... In the development of The Fork project, 21st Century Parks, Inc and Louisville Metro Government, with input from the public and Metro Council, have forged a unique public/private partnership.
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» The Master Plan Now Complete ... In 2008, 21st Century Parks completed The Fork Master Plan. The master plan scope includes 2 major parks, with spaces for community events, picnics and sports.
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» Yew Dell Gardens and 21st Century Parks Partner on Plant Propagation ... 21st Century Parks and Yew Dell Gardens have joined to find and propagate native plant species to be used in the restoration of The Floyds Fork Greenway Project.
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» Park Development in 2009 ... Our future plans include rapid development of park improvements, and some land acquisition.
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» Future Fund Closes Another Deal! ... Another innovative aspect of The Fork is its partnerships. Working with Future Fund, the visionary land trust founded by Dr. Steve Henry, and ably led by Dr. Henry and Jeff Frank, Executive Director, 21st Century Parks has preserved thousands of acres of land along Floyds Fork.
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| — MASTER PLAN HIGHLIGHT |
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» Egg Lawn ... Each edition of our quarterly e-newsletter will profile some aspect of the master plan as a way of introducing our readers to the richness and variety of that plan. With amenities that range from environmental restoration to sports fields to roads and trails, this is our way of showing you some of the many assets "The Fork" master plan will create for our city and the surrounding region.
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| — LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT |
» Building a City of Parks ... While my typical communications with you through this newsletter will be brief, I have chosen to adopt as my first letter the foreword I wrote for our master plan. While more lengthy than th norm, I felt that it was important, in our inaugural issue, to frame our project and its purposes clearly for you. This, I hope, achieves that with a comprehensive statement of our vision and the way in which our master plan, now moving into the design phase, begins to bring that vision to reality for the citizens of Louisville and the surrounding region.
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