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KFMB honored for park beautification project
By Chris Roark, croark@acnpapers.com
Last November, Keep Flower Mound Beautiful (KFMB) impressed the community with its efforts to restore Spring Lake Park in its first project to honor a loved one.
Now, the project has impressed environmentalists at the state level.
KFMB recently received the Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) Civic Organization Award for a KTB affiliate project.
KTB will officially recognize the winners June 24 at its annual conference.
“We were very proud of the project,” said project coordinator and KFMB member Kelly McDonald. “We were a little surprised that we won, but this is very positive to be recognized.”
Spring Lake Park’s restoration was an idea voted on by KFMB in 2009 to honor Marianne Kilpatrick, a 39-year-old Flower Mound resident who died in November 2008. Friends said Kilpatrick was an active volunteer in the community, and KFMB’s members wanted the park beautification project to provide a place for residents to enjoy nature while honoring Kilpatrick and other volunteers like her.
“Part of KFMB’s mission is not only to show environmental stewardship but also to encourage engagement of the community,” said project coordinator and KFMB member Kelly McDonald. “There is a broad diversity of those who participated in this project, such as volunteers, sponsors and Eagle Scouts. There were a lot of people involved in this from Flower Mound and even beyond Flower Mound.”
McDonald said 563 volunteer hours were put into the project, which benefited from $29,600 that came from 11 fundraisers, 22 sponsors and 12 direct donors.
Some of the improvements made to the park include the installation of a fountain inside the park's pond, five flower beds that feature Texas native and adaptable plants, and an irrigation system by the plants.
Throughout the trail that lines the park are three educational stations aimed to teach children about nature. One illustrates the food chain, another teaches about tree identification and a third about how all layers of the forest interconnect.
The project also included benches for a small amphitheater, repairing and repainting the existing gazebo, painting of the trash cans and the outside of the grills and the addition of dog waste signs and disposal cans.
“While we were trying to beautify the parks we wanted to do something to spark the interest in people for other community service projects,” McDonald said.
McDonald said she hopes this beautification project will be the first of many around town. It was the first project under the town’s new Adopt-a-Spot program, which stretches out to include broadscale projects and is not limited to trash pickup.
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