What needs to be done?

The city of Duluth Parks and Recreation and Parks Maintenance divisions need volunteers and others to participate in:

* The annual Clean and Green spring cleanup effort

* Beach sweeps to clear trash from the Park Point beach areas

* Adopt-a-Park, a park-maintenance program

* Adopt-a-Trail, a trail-maintenance program

* National Trails Day

* The installation of playground equipment at Chester Bowl and Park Point

* Winterizing the Rose Garden each fall

* Flooding ice skating rinks

* Removing buckthorn at the Hartley nature area and along the Western Waterfront Trail

* Repairing, maintaining and/or improving the Chester, Congdon, Kingsbury Creek, Lincoln Park, Hartley and Mission Park hiking trails.

* Maintaining and realigning the Hartley Bike Trail

* Maintaining gardens in neighborhood parks

* St. Scholastica Community Day

* Duluth Area Catholic Schools Service Day 

* Special events through the Sentence to Serve Program 

* Senior programs

The Duluth Public Library and its branches need about 4,300 hours of volunteer work. Last year, approximately 120 volunteers helped cover the tasks, which include:

* Participating in the Bookworm Garden Club, which creates and maintains some of the flower beds around the main library, downtown

* Assisting library patrons with genealogy questions

* Shelving books and helping in various other ways

The Duluth Fire Department needs:

* More residents to join the hundreds who already are shoveling out hydrants

* Interns in its fire prevention office to help with prevention programs

* Civic organizations and others to install smoke detectors and participate in other programs

The Duluth Police Department needs participants in:

* Police Explorers

* Neighborhood watch groups