Volunteers are needed to help cleanup Flint's Kearsley Park this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be many free family events happening this summer at the park like concerts, art fairs and festivals, so bring your rakes, shovels, paint brushes, and gloves and help us spruce up the place!
It's one of Flint's oldest parks, designed by influential and world-renowned landscape architect, Warren H. Manning. Kearsley Park was established in 1917 and it covers aprox. 57 acres right near the Cultural Center on Flint's Eastside. If you look on the map, you'll see Missouri Ave. just to the right of the park. My family moved to that street when I was 12 and the following year, I met my husband Michael, who lived with his mother on Kentucky Ave, one block south.
Since 2002, restoration and renovation of the park have been funded largely by grants donated by foundations like the Department of Natural Resources, the Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Program and Michigan Department of Transportation. It most certainly would never have happened without the resourcefulness and dedication of park project director, Kay Kelly. We loved this beautiful park as kids and we appreciate it still today as adults, so we can't thank her enough for what she's done to turn our park around!
