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Keep Your Year-End Giving in Your Own Backyard

The San Carlos Parks and Recreation Foundation asks you to consider making a year-end contribution to support the city's parks and rec services.

[Editor's Note: The following is a letter to the community from Steve Divney, president the Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos.]

Dear Community Supporter,

Happy Holidays to you and your family! This time of year many of you will be making a year-end contribution to your community and we hope you will consider a gift to the Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos.


Building great parks and great community starts with you.  The Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos (PRFSC) is a volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds in order maintain the finest parks and recreation programs available. With your help, the PRFSC has remodeled Burton Park, provided scholarships to those in need in order to participate in our City's outstanding recreation programs, and upgraded neighborhood parks throughout our city.

The PRFSC is currently partnered with the City of San Carlos to bring even more improvements to Burton Park. These improvements, known as Burton Park Phase II, will begin demolition and construction in late summer, 2013, provided funds are raised. This is where we need your help! Burton Park Phase II involves a public-private fundraising effort led by PRFSC, and will include resurfacing the aging basketball courts, constructing new bocce courts, new landscaping and eco-friendly park features, and creating a permanent stage for the Concerts in the Park series and other community events. See below for a rendering of the proposed project.

The PRFSC has raised approximately $150,000 towards the Burton Park Phase II project, but we have much more work to do. We are committed to contributing at least $250,000 to the City to make these improvements a reality.  You can help us reach this goal by making a fully tax-deductible  gift today. No amount is too smal.

Donate any dollar amount online  by clicking here, or you may send a check to: The Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos, P.O. Box 191, San Carlos, CA 94070

Naming rights of various equipment, benches, and landscaping features are also available, as are the ever- popular named tiles to be placed around the improved Burton Park.  These are wonderful ways to memorialize a friend or family member. For more information on these types of gifts from $250 and up click here.

The Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.

Thank you for your generosity!

Sincerely,

Steve Divney
President, Parks and Recreation Foundation of San Carlos

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Kris Robinson May 22, 2013 at 07:38 pm
Teachers who have specific projects that require funding can also put their projects up onRead More Donorschoose.org where anyone in the world can donate money to fund the project. This is a great way to get bigger-ticket wish-list type items (not for day to day supplies).
Tracy Plowman April 2, 2013 at 04:16 pm
Another great Grade K- 9 San Carlos camp is Learningtech.org, rich technology includes Science,Read More Technology, Math, Digital Arts and Engineering.
Holly Bell May 12, 2013 at 02:59 pm
If the city council likes fake plastic nature, then let them saran-wrap their own yards! LEAVE OURRead More PARKS ALONE!! This is soccer special interest pressure on city government at its worst, and the city council appears unwilling or unable to withstand it. Crestview Park is a particularly quiet, serene, simple park with lovely views which the council now wants to turn into a sports arena. Any day you can go there and see families playing on the grass, toddlers and moms enjoying picnics and play time, kids learning to ride their bikes on the nice flat paved area, athletes and older folks enjoying the flat natural track (the only one in San Carlos) to get in shape, teens throwing frisbees on the lawn. It is a perfect place for ALL residents to enjoy according to their needs, not a sports arena dedicated to one activity at the expense of all. Belmont faced a similar lack of sports venues, but they did not choose to pave paradise. They wisely raised money and built a sports complex and spared their beautiful parks for use by ALL residents. I would like to see our city council do the right thing also. And by the way, the opposition to this short-sighted plan is far more than "some residents"! Please visit our booth at Hometown Days.
Brenda May 9, 2013 at 04:10 am
One summer my kid had soccer camp on at an artificial turf field. It was terrible. It madeRead More everything hotter and very uncomfortable. I had to pull my kid out of camp early because of it. I do not think it is better for the environment OR for kids. Just go to any turf field and try to walk across it on a hot day. Try to go barefoot on it (good luck!) We have been told not to microwave plastic containers because of BPA and bad chemicals that can cause cancer. What about heating up plastic grass and running around on it, breathing the fumes that come off it?? How is that any different?
R. W. Dehner May 9, 2013 at 02:20 am
Artificial turf is appropriate for dedicated use sports venues, not for multi-use city parks.
Gordon cook April 15, 2013 at 11:30 am
Thanks for doing this. The one blatant thing I observe on a daily basis is the number and frequencyRead More of deputy's at Starbucks on 800 laurel street and the sky kitchen. I never see them in the neighborhoods. The police department was much better