Fairpark Community residents are participating in Salt Lake City’s Adopt-A-Spot Program, which is an “Open Space Lands Program to allow Salt Lake citizens to show pride in the vibrant ecology of their city by stewarding a set location over the course of one year.”

The first Fairpark Adopt-A-spot event, held in October, was a great success! It was so fun to see people in our community out working hard to improve and protect our gorgeous open space along the Jordan River. We had a lot of positive feedback from people walking and riding bikes that day. A big shout out to Earl, Butch, Artis, Will, Rob & Friends, Mike, Romello & Eddie!! Thank you so much!!

If you’d like to volunteer for future events please contact us. We would love to see you out there! Next event planned for November 29th. 11-1pm. Please contact Brook at 801-604-1895 to volunteer.

According to Amanda Anderson, Volunteer Services Coordinator for SLC:

Between January 1^st and November 1^st 2014:

125 Adopt-A-Spot volunteers gave 570 hours of service;

Over 550 gallons of trash, covering 5 miles of trail way and over 100 acres of open space area was collected;

One dozen park benches and one bridge were painted, seven trees planted , over 100 gallons of noxious plant species pulled and two trail way park areas were re-mulched .