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Volunteer of the Month: April 2010

Friends of West Sunset Playground, Winter 2009 This month NPC honors the Friends of West Sunset Playground by naming them our volunteers of the month!

Below, core member Harmmonie Wexler gives her perspctive on her time volunteering with FOWSP and accepts the award in honor of the entire FOWSP team who is busy planning their annual fundraiser event Tastes of the Sunset to be held on May 15, 2010.

Tickets can be purchased online.


Harmmonie Wexler and daughter EllieWhat inspired you to join FOWSP?

I heard that money from a bond passed by voters would be spent on a neighboring playground instead of ours.  That wasn't good enough for me. 

We deserve to have a clean and safe playground close to our home for our children and community.  At the same time, I met FOWSP's founding member Art Tom through the Outer Sunset Families group.  He was looking for other families who felt the same about the West Sunset Playground. 

The group formed and I haven't missed a meeting yet!

 
What has been the best part of planning the Tastes of the Sunset event?
 
The Sunset community has been so supportive.  Almost every business we solicited is participating in one form or another.  Many business owners grew up here and remember playing at the West Sunset Playground.  They were happy to help out.  It feels like "the village" is taking care of what the City could not.
 
What are your hopes for the event?
 
That some millionaire from the Sunset donates all the money we need to build our playground! Seriously though, I hope that the community comes out to have a great time and celebrate how far our group has come.  Now that we are in the final design phase it really feels like all our hard work just might pay off.
 

Friends of West Sunset Playground are fiscally sponored by the Neighborhood Parks Council.

Want to donate to Friends of West Sunset Playground? Click here to donate online

 

 

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