Dorchester Beach Festival Saturday Aug 8, 11-4
The Dorchester Beach Festival takes place rain or shine on Saturday, August 8, from 11 to 4. The festival is a one-day free outdoor event designed to celebrate and promote one of Dorchester’s natural gems, the Savin Hill/Malibu Beach area. A wide range of fun activities will also provide environmental, conservation and health information to the community. The festival’s free activities, such as lifeguard demonstrations, canoeing and sailing, bike safety instruction, and sun damage screening, are meant to promote health and wellness in the outdoors, as well as how to live sustainably through recycling and conservation.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay grants support this and other free events on Boston area beaches this summer. “We have great beaches. It’s important to have great things for people to do on them,” said Bruce Berman of Save the Harbor. “The grants help people to do that.” The grant came from donations by The Boston Foundation, Comcast and National Grid.
Volunteers are needed to make this year’s Dorchester Beach Festival experience as wonderful as last year’s, which saw around 5,000 attendees. Contact DEHC for details.
Kite Festival at Ronan Park July 19
Sunday, July 19, 1-5pm
2nd Annual Kite Festival
Can you think of a more perfect place to fly a kite? Bring your kites!!! The first 25 children under the age of 10 will receive a free kite to decorate any way they wish. Some refreshments will be available.
Sea Side Kites from Hull will be available for advice and assistance and to show off some truly spectacular kites.
Volunteers needed for this event! Please email info@friendsofronanpark.org if you can help.
Sponsored by Friends of Ronan Park
Boston Youth Environmental Network: Summer 2009 Full Time Position available
BYEN is seeking a Field Coordinator to support organizations participating in our summer expansion project. We need to fill this position ASAP. This is a 10 week full time position.
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Summer Environmental Youth Employment Expansion Project -
Position: BYEN Summer Youth Employment Field Coordinator
Location: Position encompasses work throughout Boston’s neighborhoods including Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and Roxbury.
The Boston Youth Environmental Network (BYEN) is a group of organizations and professionals in the environmental education, park stewardship, youth development Continue Reading »
Join the Green Team! Summer Jobs for Youth
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is hiring a Green Team for the parks and waterways – The Arnold Arboretum, Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, Jamaica Pond, Olmsted Park, and the Riverway – that stretch five miles from the Charles River to Dorchester and make up the 1,000 acres of parkland called the Emerald Necklace.
The Necklace comprises half of the City of Boston’s park acreage, and is the only remaining intact linear park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., America’s first landscape architect. The Emerald Necklace is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Green and open spaces, rivers and ponds, and a diversity of trees, shrubs, flowers, wildlife habitat, riparian life, bridges and other structures make up this urban jewel.
Crew leaders and crew are being hired to work this summer as members of the Green Team, apply now!
Summer Jobs on The Neponset
Boston Natural Areas Network Hiring for Summer – Teens & Adult Staff for Youth Conservation Corps Summer ’09
Hiring teens and adult staff to work along the Neponset River Greenway! For more info on YCC teen and adult positions, visit http://www.bostonnatural.org /ycc.htm or contact Candice Cook at candice@bostonnatural.org , 617.542.7696 x16.
Teens must be registered with Mayor’s Hopeline.
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