From the Make Music Day to the World Beat Festival and Hoopla, here are the major events coming to Salem through September.
Tag: SALEM PARKS
Retired science teacher hopes to get Salem kids playing in nature
A new nature play group is starting up in October, with monthly sessions in Salem and Keizer for kids age 2-5.
Patience pays off with early eagle chick sighting for Salem volunteers
A city monitoring program in its second year relies on 150 citizen scientists to gather data about two bald eagle nests in Salem’s busiest parks.
PHOTOS: First blooms of spring delight visitors at Gaiety Hollow
Spring may be a bit slow in arriving, but the flowering trees and the first brave bulbs were putting on a beautiful show for the attendees of the first Lord and Schryver open garden tour Saturday.
$40,000 in city grants awarded to 7 Salem parks
The funding will replace a walking path wrecked by a fallen tree, develop a mural, add seating and more.
Stretch of trees planted at Riverfront Park honors Salem stream lover
Cheryl Hummon, who is retiring after 11 years with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, rolled up her sleeves with friends and coworkers to plant trees celebrating her work helping Oregon rivers and streams.
Bike repair station coming to Minto Brown Park
People cross the Peter Courtney Minto Island Bridge, which connects Minto Brown Island Park to Riverfront Park (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem’s largest park will soon have a station for cyclists to repair their bikes on the fly. A bike repair station with attached tools like a pump, wrench and screwdriver[Read More…]
Volunteers bring native plants to Englewood Park
Volunteers examine a clod of dirt during a work party at Englewood Park on Saturday, March 26, 2022 (Gerald Patrickson/Special to Salem Reporter) More than two dozen pairs of happy hands attacked the invasive growth on the east side of Salem’s Englewood Park Saturday in an ongoing campaign to create[Read More…]
Uncategorized After overhauling ravine, Mission Street Parks Conservancy has ambitious plans for Salem parks
Gretchen Carnaby, a garden designer and co-founder of the Mission Street Parks Conservancy, shows off a Japanese maple the group planted in the Bush Pasture Park ravine. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A dozen volunteers pulled weeds from bare dirt and sprayed water on newly-planted Japanese maple trees in Bush’s Pasture Park[Read More…]
