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The field is difficult to maintain because the neighbors use it as a dog toilet for several hours per day and in many cases, do not clean up after their pooches. Maybe if the residents who were so concerned about the park actually helped keep it clean of dog waste and organized volunteer clean ups over the years, they would be taken more seriously. Instead it is all about what DPR has or hasn't done for them (not the park, but them). Only now, you organize into something that tries to be a Friends group with any sort of credibility. Hypocritical.[/quote]

Actually, I have observed that nearby residents have done quite a lot in terms of upkeep to the park, at least for the 50 years that I've been a member of this community (go ahead, bring on the geritol comments). For years,  one person kept a container stocked with plastic bags for dog droppings in front of their home; they stopped doing it when people kept leaving the poop filled bags behind on their way home. Another person repeatedly painted over the graffiti that crops up on the green tennis wall. Another has taken hammer to nail and fixed the fence a few times by the ravine into the ROW. Several have picked up trash. Some have raked leaves.  Others have mowed the field. Some have picked up downed limbs,  chopped into firewood, and stacked for others to take.  And many contributed cash donations (to the tune of several hundred dollars a family) to at least one prior failed attempt to properly drain and irrigate the field. Others contributed a lot of time over the years to try to work with DPR to address concern  about the trees,  the fields, the rec cottage,  and the other existing features. More can always be done, and not every person has helped in this way.. But faulting nearby residents for not taking care of park issues is disrespectful to those who have done so much for so long, and just plain wrong.[/quote]

Don't you have better things to do like hang out at the lampshade store in your beloved historic Cleveland Park?[/quote]

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