Contact Page for Friends of the Parks

Lakeway, Texas


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Contact the FOP Board President George Ferrie or by phone 261-5147
Contact the FOP Board Treasurer Bernie Reding or by phone 261-5633
Contact the FOP Board member Mickey Wright or by phone 261-4217
Contact the FOP Board member Michael Smith or by phone 261-3662
Contact the FOP Board member Bill Freas or by phone 263-2263
Contact the FOP Board member George Blume by phone 261-5448
Contact the FOP Board member Jim Dunn
FOP Board member Pat Long
FOP Board member Lorraine Tallent
Contact the FOP webmaster
Download the FOP Brochure (PDF) - requires Adobe Acrobat or equivalent
Pay your yearly membership dues Here

Trees in the Boulevard

On November 9th fifteen members of Friends of the Parks met at the far end of Lakeway Blvd. to give some tender loving care to trees that were planted by Trees of Lakeway and Friends of the Parks 5 years ago. After 3 years the City crews were to assume care of trees but they haved not had manpower or knowledge of what to do. We found that many cages had been removed to soon and trees were "horned" severly by deer. We lost some small trees but others have survived. When cages were removed the mowers began to mow too close to the trunks of the trees and we found many were damaged.

The $10,000 spent on purchasing the trees was a grant from the Lakeway Civic Corporation. The trees were planted with city crews digging the holes and volunteers (mostly Friends of the Parks) doing the actual planting, watering and caring for the trees. Over 1,000 hours of volunteer hours have been spent on these trees so it is important that we take care of them.

We don't plan to work on regular FOP workdays but will try to find weekdays to work.

If there are people out there who would be interested in helping out with the Lakeway Boulevard trees now and then, please have them call Peg or Marv Hein at 261-6085.

submitted by : Peg Hein

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