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In lieu of a December Friends of Rouge Park meeting, we are asking all members to attend the Joy-Southfield Downtowns of Promise Meeting on Wed. Dec. 14 at 6:30 pm at the Edison Branch Library, 18400 Joy Road.
This is a planning meeting for the Green Corridor along Joy Road that will connect to Rouge Park. We need FORP members to help advocate for connecting the planned Green Corridor with Rouge Park. See details about the meeting here.
Friends of Rouge Park
General Membership Meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 19
6:00-7:00pm
at Don Bosco Hall
19321 W. Chicago, Detroit
Please Join Us!
We have big dreams for Rouge Park. We want to continue to host activities that draw attention to the value of our beloved park. We want to see large picnic shelters like the ones at Belle Isle for family reunions and community events. We want to see new playscapes, benches, garbage cans and picnic tables throughout the park. We want better security and enforcement of anti-dumping laws and laws banning the motorcyles and ATVs from ripping up the park. We want to see our ball fields and winter sports area renovated. We want maintained bike paths and hiking trails. We want all these things, but we need your support and involvement to make it happen. If you love Rouge Park as much as we do, please join and come to our monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of each month. | |
Planning an event in Rouge Park?
click here for the Special Events Application
For further information please call Lynn Shaw
of the City of Detroit Recreation Department at 313-877-8075
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Hummingbird Moth seen at our
4th Annual Rouge Park Butterfly Walk.
15 species of butterflies (and several Hummingbird Moths!) were spotted by 25 people on our 4th Annual Rouge Park Butterfly Walk on Sunday, July 31. Here's the list:
1. Tiger Swallowtail
2. Monarch
3. Black Swallowtail
4. Hummingbird Moth - so spectacular it is an honorary butterfly
5. Pearl Crescent
6. Giant Swallowtail
7. Spicebush Swallowtail
8. Great Spangled Fritillary
9. Cabbage White
10. Summer Azure
11. Skipper species?
12. another Skipper species, more orange than the first one
13. Eastern Tailed Blue
14. Coral Hairstreak
If you missed the Butterfly Walk, you can still get a copy of the book Learn About Butterflies in the Garden by the leader of the walk, Brenda Dziedzic of the Southeast Michigan Butterfly Association. Visit www.ButterfliesInTheGarden.com for more information.
Take a Walk on the new Rouge Park Prairie Pathway. Enter on Outer Drive just south of Joy Rd. Watch for the new entrance sign coming next year.
Butterfly Walk in the Rouge Park Prairie on Aug. 7, 2010. Led by Brenda Dziedzic of the Southeast Michigan Butterfly Associaltion
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Help Raise Funds for the Friends of Rouge Park at NO COST TO YOU!
Last year members of the Friends of Rouge Park helped raise over $250 by using their Kroger Cards. If you are a member of the Friends of Rouge Park shop at Kroger, you can help us by designating Friends of Rouge Park under the Community Rewards program and we will receive a percentage of your purchases at no cost to you. To sign up, please go to:
To become a member of Friends of Rouge Park for only $5/year, click here.
***FOR THOSE OF YOU ALREADY ENROLLED, YOU MUST RE-ENROLL.
To do so, log in at above address, then look under Community
Rewards and choose Friends of Rouge Park. |
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